HONOLULU (KHON) — A former flight attendant for a Canadian airline posed as a commercial pilot and as a current flight attendant to obtain hundreds of free flights from U.S. airlines, authorities said. Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday following his extradition. According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fake employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that Pokornik even requested to sit in an extra seat in the cockpit — the “jump seat” — typically reserved for off-duty pilots. It was not clear from court documents whether he ever actually rode in a plane’s cockpit, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to say. Documents said that Pokornik fraudulently represented Hawaiian Airlines, with officials saying he “intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money” between January 2024 and October 2024. DOJ officials reported that he has also pulled this scheme on airlines headquartered in Chicago, Fort Worth and Toronto. Air Canada, which is based in Toronto, did not respond to an email seeking comment. The scheme lasted four years, prosecutors in Hawaii said. Pokornik faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. A U.S. magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Pokornik to remain in custody. His federal defender declined to comment. The allegations against Pokornik are reminiscent of “Catch Me If You Can,” the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio that tells the story of Frank Abagnale posing as a pilot to defraud an airline . The Associated Press contributed to this report.