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A couple fell in love 40 years above the clouds while working as Virgin’s cabin crew on its first trans-Atlantic route. The love story of Malcolm and Jacqui King-McKinnon, from Heswall, Wirral, is an epic meet-cute. Both were working on Sir Richard Branson ’s new creation, Virgin Atlantic – intended to disrupt the business of flying at the time – unaware of each other at first.

But their lives changed forever when Malcolm saw Jacqui at the car park of London Gatwick , wearing the ‘iconic red Virgin Atlantic uniform as she was pulling her suitcase from the boot of her car.’ Before the first encounter on one of Virgin’s inaugural flights from Manchester in the UK to North America, Malcolm offered to help Jacqui with her luggage and the pair walked to the crew check-in. He said ‘that was it, I was smitten.



’ He also committed to taking every flight with her from then on, saying he managed to do ‘a bit of ‘tactical roster adjustment” to get on Jacqui’s next five-night Miami trip from London. Malcolm, 64, who hails from Troon in Scotland, told Metro.co.

uk: ‘It was love at first flight.’ Both knew ‘there was a spark,’ but Mally – as Jacqui calls him – took things slowly ‘as he was, and still is, a proper gentleman,’ she said. Jacqui, who was born in the Wirral, explained how the pair made courting work despite the transient nature of their job, which they both still work in.

She said: ‘There were occasions where Mally would work on the ear.

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