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Pakistan's National Airline faces crisis as yet another flight attendant vanishes into Canada

Pakistan International Airlines flight attendants have been failing to report back after landing in Toronto, and while some blame low salaries and fear of privatization, the airline blames Canada.

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

JANUARY 25, 2024 23:24

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane prepares to take off from the Benazir International airport in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 9, 2016.

(photo credit: REUTERS/FAISAL MAHMOOD/FILE PHOTO)

Yet another Pakistan International Airlines flight attendant disappeared in Canada last week after touching down in Toronto, the airline's spokesman, Abdullah Hafeez Khan, confirmed on Wednesday.

Khan said that flight attendant Faiza Mukhtar landed in Toronto on Jan. 19 on PIA flight PK-781 from Islamabad, and was supposed to depart the following day on flight PK-784 from Toronto to Karachi. 

However, "she did not board the flight and disappeared," Khan told The Media Line

Mukhtar's disappearance follows at least seven disappearances in 2023 by PIA flight attendants after landing in Canada. Khan confirmed that in late December, Syed Ali Abbas and Farkhanda Shaheen landed in Toronto on a flight from Lahore and failed to report back for their departing flight. Earlier that month, Ayaz Qureshi also failed to report back after landing on a flight from Lahore to Toronto. In November, flight attendants Khalid Afridi and Fida Hussain Shah vanished soon after landing in Toronto on a flight from Islamabad. Several others also slipped away in Canada in the months before that.

Khan said that "crews seeking asylum are common throughout South Asia and other developing countries, therefore this situation is not exclusive to PIA."