A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot attempted to pass off his two-year-old son as an infant in order to take him from Karachi to New York, a private news channel reported on Friday.
In violation of the airline’s rules, Captain Faisal reportedly tried to fly his son on an infant’s ticket in the cockpit of the international flight. The pilot managed to take his son to Manchester but the automated system at the airport was not able to issue a boarding pass to the son. The pilot reportedly told the administration that he will pay for his son’s ticket after which the administration issued the boarding pass manually, the channel reported.
The father and son have managed to reach New York.
The news channel said that the Pakistan Airline Pilots’ Association (PALPA) is reportedly pressing the airline’s administration not to start an inquiry against the pilot.