HONOLULU — A Canadian man posed as a commercial pilot and as a working flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from U.S. airlines, authorities said.
Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto was arrested in Panama after an indictment on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday following his extradition to the United States.
According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fake employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines…