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Crew members quarantined on the Ruby Princess have created a harrowing ‘satirical’ video making light of the coronavirus outbreak on board. There are 52 crew on board the cruise ship – which is docked at Port Kembla, south of Sydney – who have tested positive to COVID-19. Ruby Princess employees have passed the time in … Read more
An Easy Jet cabin crew worker who urged the public to ‘pull together’ and vowed to start volunteering at the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic has bragged about making non-essential trips to pick up decking boards. All first-aid trained cabin crew from both Virgin Atlantic and East Jet have been invited to use their skills … Read more
The test was a routine one, on what should have been a routine mission. But after astronauts on Apollo 13 discovered a leak in their oxygen tank, a crippled spacecraft’s desperate four-day voyage home transfixed the world. Fifty years ago today, three astronauts took off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on what seemed by then … Read more
British Airways cabin crew boss dies of coronavirus in a hospital bed alongside recovering Boris Johnson Ian Johnson, a cabin service director in his 50s, was in St Thomas’ Hospital ICU He was on a ventilator for ten days before he tragically passed away yesterday Mr Johnson is thought to be the first BA staff member … Read more
The acting secretary of the United States Navy has defended his decision to fire the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt saying he put the crew ‘at risk’ by sending a letter demanding they be quarantined after an outbreak of coronavirus. Thomas Modly said America’s enemies might think the aircraft carrier was ‘crippled’ after a … Read more
The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was given a rousing salute by his now-former crew as he left the aircraft carrier for the last time after being fired over a letter he wrote demanding his sailors be quarantined after a coronavirus outbreak. Video posted to social media by sailors shows a large crowd of … Read more
NUMBERS * Confirmed cases in Australia: 5,133. NSW is the worst hit with 2298. * Australian deaths: 24 (10 in NSW, six in Vic, three in Qld, two in WA, two in Tas, one in ACT). * Five of the dead were residents of a Sydney aged care home, Dorothy Henderson Lodge, nine had been … Read more
Cabin crew will join doctors and nurses in staffing the new Nightingale hospitals built to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS has said. Staff at Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet have been invited to volunteer at the new 4,000-bed clinic being built at the Excel centre in east London, and those planned in Birmingham and … Read more
IMG Model Bella Hadid shared a sunny selfie of her artificially-plumped pout while confined in quarantine in Los Angeles on Saturday. The half-Palestinian, half-Dutch 23-year-old showed off her large collection of candy she’s hoarding – including Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Sour Patch Kids, Airheads, Nerds, and Pocky. The DC-born, Malibu-raised socialite then burned some of … Read more
Japan Airlines ditches compulsory high heels and skirts for its 6,000 female cabin crew after equality campaign by feminists Feminist campaigners gathered 32,000 signatures to change the uniform rules From next month, female cabin crew can wear trousers and flat shoes at work The airline said the new rules will promote a ‘diverse working environment’ … Read more