Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 over Facebook comments

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Virgin Atlantic has dismissed 13 staff because of comments they made on social networking site Facebook. The staff, all cabin crew, broke the company's policies, the airline said.

The cabin crew had posted comments in a discussion on Facebook which Virgin Atlantic said brought the company into disrepute and insulted staff.

Though the group has disappeared from Facebook, newspapers have reported that the comments insulted customers, claimed that planes were full of cockroaches and called pla... (370 more words)

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