Hey, if you can have WestJetters why not Virgins. Typically swimming against the tide, or flying against the wind, or whatever - as statistics show UK unemployment on the rise - Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic has announced a recruitment drive for 500 cabin crew. The Office of National Statistics released new figures which saw unemployment rise by 48,000 in the last three months of 2011. Virgin however, says it is expanding its network and fleet, and is advertising jobs throughout the year on www.virginatlantic.com The jobs will be based out of London Heathrow and Gatwick and new recruits will be heading for Virgin Atlantic's new routes - Cancun and Vancouver - along with other destinations on the airline's long-haul network including New York, Barbados, Las Vegas and Shanghai. Corneel Koster, director of
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