Authorities say a former flight attendant for a Canadian airline posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from U.S. airlines. Authorities say 33-year-old Dallas Pokornik of Toronto pleaded not guilty Tuesday following his extradition. He was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. Court documents say Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fake employee identification to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three airlines. The indictment did not identify the airlines except to say they are based in Honolulu, Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas.
