A Canadian man, Dallas Pokornik, is accused of masquerading as both a pilot and a flight attendant, allegedly raking in hundreds of free flights over four years.
The 33-year-old Toronto native created a fake employee identification card to receive free flights on US airlines.
Pokornik had previously worked legitimately as a flight attendant for a Canadian airline from 2017 to 2019, but was not employed by any airline at the time of the alleged fraud.
He used a fake badge defrauding three US airlines out of flights reserved for pilots and flight attendants. At one point, Pokornik requested to sit in a “jump seat” in a plane’s cockpit, a spot reserved for off-duty pilots.
He was arrested in Panama and extradited to the United States, where he now faces wire fraud charges.
