Yet another Pakistan Airlines flight attendant vanishes during Toronto layover

A flight attendant working for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) left her uniform and a brief thank-you note to her employer in a Toronto hotel room before disappearing, the website India Today reported this week. It’s at least the second time this year such an incident has happened, and the tenth time in the last two years. According to the news site, PIA crew member Maryam Raza arrived in Toronto on a flight from Islamabad on Monday but didn’t report for duty on her return flight to Karachi the next day. A search of her hotel room turned up a note saying “Thank you, PIA,” along with her uniform. Maryam’s disappearance comes just a month after PIA flight attendant Faiza Mukhtar’s similar disappearance. Mukhtar, who was scheduled to fly back to Karachi a day after landing in Toronto, “did not board the flight and disappeared,” PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez Khan told the website TheMediaLine. The disappearances are something of an embarrassing trend for the airline, which has been battling financial and credibility losses in recent years. Last November, Pakistan-based Ary News reported that two flight attendants had “slipped away” after arriving on flight PK-772 from Islamabad to Toronto. Crew members named Khalid and Fida did not show up for their return flight. Similar cases involved crew named Muntazir in July, and Ijaz and Ramzan, both in October 2022. In all, there have been at least 10 missing crew over the past two years, but other disappearances go back to at least 2018.<br/>