Why We Sacked Our Nigerian Crew - Virgin Atlantic Airways

Kudirat Scott-Igbene, the marketing and communications manager of British Airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways has issued a statement on the reason the company has decided to discontinue operations in Nigeria. A top source of the company had hinted reporters several hours back that they pulled out of the Nigerian market because it is no longer sustainable for the airline to continue to operate in the country.

“Virgin Atlantic Airways has laid off all its Nigerian cabin crew. They were only given three- week notice and no severance package regardless of their length of service will be paid. “The air-hostesses they sacked were about 20 and last year, they closed down their Nigerian call centre and let go of all the Nigerian staff.” The source hinted.

Kudirat explained further that “We have decided that we will no longer have crew based in Lagos. This is by no means a reflection on our Lagos based cabin crew, the primary purpose of our locally based cabin crew has been to provide cultural expertise and customer feedback has shown us that this is no longer a requirement on the Lagos route.

“The additional complexity required to operate an international crew base where there are no foreign language requirement means it is no longer sustainable going forward.”


“This announcement has no impact on our flying programme and we plan to continue flights between Lagos and London.

“After 14 years of flying the route, we remain committed to servicing the Nigerian people, whether it be for business, family or education.”

Posted: at 8-11-2015 05:55 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Una welldone,infact una don try,oya bye bye,unemployment again 4 doz dat was sacked,buhari take note.

Posted: at 8-11-2015 06:02 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

You guyz will remain committed.... After causing Unemployment.

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Posted: at 8-11-2015 06:12 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

The main problem and the real cause of this is because everyone is of the mentality that there is no employment in the country, which makes us beg for jobs and give employers upper hand to treating their employee anyhow they like. And now everyone is dancing to the tune of making sure you do everything to keep your job, knowing wat is should be your right as an employee but ignoring to key to it because we don't want to get sacked..... And at the end we tend to get used up and damped by this same employer.... Nigerians should start speaking up, we should start claiming our right and not allowing all these so called employer of labour use us as slaves in our own country.

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Posted: at 8-11-2015 06:25 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Why will a foreign company just sack our people like that? Without any form of compensation, this no dey funny at all oo

Posted: at 8-11-2015 07:02 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

After use then dump in my father land a sham NLC

Posted: at 8-11-2015 07:23 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

i knw they are nt going to compensate them.

Posted: at 8-11-2015 08:11 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

i knw that there cabinet crew in 9ja has go behold level. i knw the cause of the saking is that perhaps there customer where happy wit them. mayb there way of attending to customer.

Posted: at 8-11-2015 08:20 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

9ja should just change there way in everywhere una dey. we should let them respect us as country

Posted: at 8-11-2015 08:24 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

I guess it's because of the bribes

Posted: at 8-11-2015 08:29 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming