Jet sacks foreign air hostesses

New Delhi: India’s second largest airline, Jet Airways, has retrenched all the 120 foreign airhostesses it had as part of its 3,000-strong cabin
crew. Jet has so far never hired cabin crew from the west and all expat airhostesses hailed from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. With Jet closing overseas crew bases in these three places, the 120 expats were laid off.
The move to retrench expat airhostesses is the latest in a series of steps taken to keep the airline afloat in tough times.
14/05/09 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India