There are worries about the growing number of cabin crew personnel who are allegedly disappearing while on duty after another Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) steward went missing in Toronto.
On October 13, Mohsin Raza, the missing crew member, was scheduled to report for duty on aircraft PK 784, which was headed for Karachi. But Raza, from Islamabad, was reported missing from the hotel before to the trip. On the Islamabad-Toronto route, he was assigned to the cabin crew.
After failing to show up for the flight, the steward was reported missing.
This occurrence represents the twelfth reported case of a PIA flight attendant going missing following a layover in Toronto in a single year. The practice seems to have had little effect in reducing the problem, despite PIA’s best efforts to stop such incidents, such as the rule requiring air hostesses to provide their passports to airline personnel while they are in Canada.
A representative for the PIA verified that the missing air hostess has been the target of action, and that the situation is being looked into. The airline’s prior experiences with such issues involving its cabin staff have sparked questions about the internal controls in place to keep these kinds of things from happening again.
