*KARACHI: The administration of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) hasfired several flight attendants under Service Discipline Regulation 1985.*

As per details, the national flag carrier dismissed few flight attendantsfor acquiring the job on a fake educational degree while others were fireddue to availing illegal leaves.

In the first phase of its crackdown, the PIA sacked three air hostess andtwo stewards from Flight Services Department.

Prior to the dismissal, the employees were issued show-cause notices as perthe airline’s rules, but none of them submitted their response to it.

Earlier in August, Pakistan International Airlines announced a recordnumber of promotions of 1,000 flight attendants as it was the highest-everfigure in the history citing past records.

Sources said that the large-scale promotions were made for the first timein history in Flight Services Department of the national flag-carrier asmore than 600 flight attendants were promoted from Grade 4 to Grade 5,whereas, more than 90 attendants were promoted to Grade 6 from Grade 5.