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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:05
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The leading airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways expressed their intentions of hiring 1500 staff over the next eighteen months. The group, which is owned by Singapore Airlines and Richard Branson's Virgin Group, is all gung-ho about the airline’s expansion plans.
The services have been launched in Cuba and Nassau today and these new routes will augment the airline’s capacity to the Caribbean by 27%, in the existing arrangement, the airline carries approximately 130,000 tourists a year to the region.
Come summer and Virgin will have immense presence with services in Shanghai, Las Vegas, Orlando and Port Harcourt followed by Dubai and Jamaica next year.
Virgin Atlantic presently employs around 8,500 staff worldwide and hopes to recruit 1100 cabin crews, 150 flight-deck personnel along with 150 ground crew to be based at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Besides, another 100 office staff will be positioned at the headquarters.
Of the total 1500 recruitments, 1000 will be new positions whereas the remaining 500 will entail natural turnover of the staff.
Virgin also plans to take delivery of seven A340-600 planes from Airbus SAS by the end of next year. This would increase the carrier’s fleet to 39.
The group like British Airways, in order deal with the rising oil prices, raised its fuel surcharges on flights ranging in between £8 and £24.
The Chairman, Branson states “At a time when the airline industry is up against high oil prices with many struggling to survive, Virgin Atlantic added services to Sydney in December last year, Mumbai in March this year, Havana and Nassau this summer and will launch services between Manchester to Barbados later this year.”
Virgin formulates growth turnover by 10% in the next year by increasing frequencies and retiring aging planes.
Virgin Holidays, a sister concern will also witness expansion and recruitment over the next 18 months.
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