"Authorities in Hawaii announced this week that Dallas Pokornik, 33, had been charged with wire fraud after he allegedly fooled three major US carriers into giving him free tickets over a span of four years. Airlines typically offer standby tickets to their own staff and those with rival airlines as a way of ensuring the broader industry can effectively move employees across continents."
"According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, but then used an employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets, which he in fact knew to be fraudulent at the time it was so presented. The only Toronto-based airline, Porter, told reporters it was unable to verify any information related to this story."
Dallas Pokornik, 33, was charged with wire fraud after allegedly obtaining hundreds of free flights by posing as airline personnel over four years. He allegedly fooled three major US carriers into issuing standby tickets commonly extended to airline employees and rival-airline staff. Court documents state he worked as a flight attendant from 2017 to 2019 and later used a carrier employee identification he knew to be fraudulent to obtain tickets. On one occasion he requested a cockpit jumpseat reserved for off-duty pilots despite lacking an airman's certificate. He was indicted on 2 October, arrested in Panama, extradited to the United States, and is under investigation by Homeland Security.
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