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?”

Tags: Air Travel, Airworld, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Ottawa, Canada.


1 Comment for Simon Calder: Cut Airline Staff a Break, Already

Grizzly Bear Mom 11.06.08 | 12:44 PM ET

Amen!  I am saddened by the increasingly boorish and demanding behavior of the U.S. public.  I don’t know what it’s like in other countries.

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