The wrong word costs an Aeroflot stewardess her job

The Russian airline Aeroflot fired a stewardess over the weekend after Moscow State University television school Dean Vitaly Tretyakov complainedon Twitter that his flight to Kaliningrad was announced in English as a “Moscow-Königsberg” trip. “Can Aeroflot really name Russian cities however it wants?” Tretyakov wrote angrily on Friday, April 27.

Aeroflot says it fired the flight’s head stewardess after she confessed to referring to Kaliningrad by its German name in her PA announcement in English. (The USSR acquired the territory from East Prussia in the Potsdam Agreement, after World War II.) Tretyakov, meanwhile, insists that the announcement was made by a man, and says he worries the stewardess is covering for the flight’s captain.