Flight attendant fired after ‘tryst’

Qantas Airways has fired a flight attendant who gave a detailed account to a newspaper of a midair tryst with actor Ralph Fiennes in an airliner toilet cubicle.

The airline had earlier suspended Lisa Robertson pending an investigation into reports she had sex with Fiennes during a flight from the northern Australia city of Darwin to Mumbai, India, on Jan. 24.

Qantas said in a statement Monday that Robertson’s employment contract had been terminated. It didn’t give a reason.

The statement came a day after Robertson’s account of a fling with Fiennes on board the flight and later at a hotel in India was published in a British newspaper.

Fiennes has not commented on the incident, but spokeswoman Sara Keene was quoted as saying in News Ltd. newspapers that he was seduced by the woman.