Heroic cabin crew from airlines left grounded by the coronavirus pandemic will offer up their services to the NHS by working at the new 4,000-patient emergency field hospital in London, it has been revealed.
Staff at Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet have been invited to volunteer at the new 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale clinic being built at the Excel centre in east London, and those planned in Birmingham and Manchester, the NHS has confirmed.
Their salaries will continue to be paid by the airlines. Many first-aid trained cabin crew across the world have been grounded as countries have closed borders and cancelled flights amid the Covid-19 pandemic.