Recruitment help centre

We’re glad you asked. There’s loads to love working here, from our be yourself culture to perks that will leave you flying high, literally. But if you ask anyone what they love the most about Virgin Atlantic, they’ll tell you it’s the people that make us the place to be.

Take a look around our diversity, equity and inclusion page to see if we’re the place for you (we may be biased, but we think you’ll be a big fan).

At Virgin Atlantic, inclusion is at the heart of our culture. Diversity of thought, background and experience are essential to driving our business performance. Building an inclusive environment is essential to our growth, and we’re working hard to create a fully inclusive culture, celebrating everybody’s individuality and differences. We also believe we have a pivotal role within our industry to drive improved gender balance and ethnicity and help those with disabilities to thrive at work.

We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and pride ourselves on creating the best possible recruitment experience for all. We carefully consider each stage of your recruitment journey, from looking at the language used in our job adverts to how our interviews and assessments are structured.

We’re also a Disability Confident Employer. Participating in the Disability Confident scheme is part of our ongoing commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. So, if you have any questions about our hiring process, please get in touch with us at Recruitment@fly.virgin.com.

We’re thrilled that you’re interested in joining the Virgin Atlantic family. Just a quick heads-up before you apply: you’ll need an unrestricted right to live and work in the UK without sponsorship for these roles. As per the current UK Government (Home Office) guidelines, these positions don’t qualify for skilled worker sponsorship.

While there are some exceptions, do note that there’s a minimum salary requirement to be eligible for a skilled worker visa, which would permit you to work in the UK.

For a comprehensive understanding of the UK Government Restrictions, we recommend visiting this link.

It’s great you’re looking to join the Virgin Atlantic family. Each day we post new and exciting roles on our search and apply page so we’re sure something will pop up.

We’d also recommend setting up a job alert. That way you’ll be the first to know about our newly landed vacancies. Each time we share a new vacancy on our careers site that meets your dream job criteria, we’ll drop you an email to let you know about it.

Our pilot and cabin crew roles are recruited depending on planned resource needs. If you can’t find cabin crew or pilots on the search and apply page at the time you’re looking, we’re likely to have everyone we need in those positions. However, we’d welcome you to keep checking back or subscribe to our job alerts service so you can be the first to know once one of these opportunities goes live.

Occasionally, fake websites and emails are created to look like Virgin Atlantic. Our team is doing all it can to report scammers and get fake websites taken down. Sadly, scammers and impersonators aren’t going to disappear overnight. Reporting suspicious content helps us tackle online scams and make the internet safer.

Our careers site URL is https://careersuk.virgin-atlantic.com/, and the link to any roles begins with https://careersuk.virgin-atlantic.com/search-and-apply/. If you click on a link that doesn’t take you to pages that don’t look or feel like Virgin Atlantic’s career site, it’s likely to be fraudulent, and we’d strongly recommend closing it. If you’re ever in doubt, start at https://careersuk.virgin-atlantic.com/ and go from there.

We’d never offer you a role before meeting you, So if you receive an offer of employment but haven’t been in touch with a member of the Virgin Atlantic resourcing team, there’s something wrong. Virgin Atlantic also never charge people for interviews or to provide letters of employment.

When it comes to emails, they’ll always come from an address ending in “@fly.virgin.com”. If you receive it doesn’t end in this; it’s highly likely to be a scam. Virgin Atlantic’s recruitment team would also never ask you for personal information such as:

• Your passwords
• Banking or credit card information

To report an email, you believe to be suspicious

1. Forward the email to Recruitment@fly.virgin.com
2. Delete the email from your inbox

Our team will investigate. Once reviewed, we’ll be in touch to let you know if the email is authentic.

We’re currently taking a short breather on our work experience programme. But don’t you worry! We’re eagerly looking forward to bringing it back in no time at all.

Internships? They’re not on our radar just yet, but we’re excited about the prospect of adding them to our repertoire soon. We know how valuable these opportunities can be.

So here’s a friendly nudge – keep checking back on our website. We promise to keep it brimming with the latest updates on all our new programmes. We’re as excited as you are to embark on these new journeys together.

We pride ourselves on the importance of our candidate relationships. This also extends to the way in which we handle personal information about those who apply for roles with us. We are committed to being transparent about the ways in which we intend to use your information. Want to know more? Read our privacy policy here.

You can ask us to remove your personal data by sending an email to Recruitment@fly.virgin.com