Simon Calder: Cut Airline Staff a Break, Already

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 11.05.08 | 6:56 AM ET

The Independent’s travel columnist offers his take on the recent firings of 13 Virgin Atlantic staff who created a Facebook group to complain about their passengers, and the possible disciplining of several British Airways staff that did the same. “The term ‘long-suffering’ could have been invented to describe the people who work in aviation,” he writes. “If they choose to disparage some of us when out of uniform, who can blame them?”