A Sri Lanka stewardess really wanted the day off on Friday so she decided to phone in a bomb threat from her boyfriend's cell phone to the airlines for which she "was" employed.

"The inquiry reveals that the stewardess had given the false alarm because she did not want to fly that day," says Colombo's Sunday Times weekly.

The stewardess was fired immediately according to the paper.

SriLankan Airlines spokeswoman Ruvini Jayasinghe declined to either confirm or deny the report and referred the call to senior officials, who were not immediately reachable.

In recent months, two bomb threats forced aircraft to return to the ground in Sri Lanka. On Oct. 3, a London-bound SriLankan Airlines plane returned to Colombo's international airport after a telephone caller said there was a bomb on board.No explosives were found on that flight.

On Sept. 8, one passenger was killed and 20 others were injured in a stampede to evacuate a Saudi Air plane at the same airport after a similar bomb threat.