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A flight attendant working for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) disappeared after leaving her uniform and a short note of appreciation with her employer in a Toronto hotel room, a website reported. india today Reported this week.
This is at least the second such incident this year and the 10th in the past two years.
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PIA crew member Maryam Raza arrived in Toronto on Monday on a flight from Islamabad, but did not fly back to Karachi the next day for duty, the news site said. He searched his hotel room and found a note along with his uniform that read, “Thank you, PIA.”
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Maryam’s disappearance comes just a month after the similar disappearance of PIA flight attendant Faiza Mukhtar. Mukhtar was scheduled to return to Karachi the day after her arrival in Toronto, but “she did not board the plane and she went missing,” PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez Khan told the website. . the media line.
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The disappearances are an embarrassing trend for airlines, which have struggled with financial and reputational losses in recent years.
Last November, Pakistan-based Ally News reported that two flight attendants “slipped off” after arriving on flight PK-772 from Islamabad to Toronto. Crew members named Khalid and Fida did not appear on the repatriation flight.
Similar incidents involved crew members named Muntazir in July 2022 and Ijaz and Ramzan in October 2022. In total, at least 10 crew members have gone missing in the past two years, while other disappearances date back to at least 2018.
The pattern is the same. A flight attendant disembarked from the plane with his colleagues but did not show up for the scheduled return flight. Police and immigration authorities were alerted and a PIA spokesperson confirmed the incident and said authorities were being contacted to investigate.
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The company announced last year that it would introduce stricter measures to track employees on flights to Canada and Europe. Flight attendants on these routes have an age limit of 50 years or older, presumably assuming that younger people are more likely to get lost. It is also expected that passengers will be required to increase the frequency of check-ins and strengthen communication between staff during transit.
Pakistan International Airlines has also been in trouble recently. In August last year, it reportedly had to ground several planes and cut some routes due to unpaid fees as it was unable to pay its employees. This was the same month that employees announced a two-hour “token strike” over the airline’s privatization plans and lack of pay increases.
The airline also crashed in 2020, killing all but two passengers and crew on the Airbus A320, leaving one person dead and seven injured on the ground.
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