Airline pilot honoured for first-class treatment of NHS staff
An airline pilot who set up first-class-style lounges in hospitals across the country at the start of the pandemic to give exhausted NHS frontline staff a break has been made an MBE. Captain Emma Henderson, from Moray in Scotland, realised very early that large parts of the UK’s fleet of airliners would soon be grounded as the pandemic took hold. She put her 29 years in the industry to good use by setting up Project Wingman, a series of airport-style quiet spaces, to “wrap a blanket” around frontline workers in the middle of a busy shift. The project was manned by former and current air...
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