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Three hundred employees at a company that supplies airline lounge services have had their airside security passes suspended after police arrested two women on suspicion of fraud at Heathrow airport affecting security passes. The concern is believed to be around the processing of passes, which are issued to many of the airport's 70,000 workers employed on the airport's airside. Permanent and temporary passes are given to flight crews, baggage handlers, shop and restaurant staff, hangar and ramp workers, cargo and...

KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has terminated the services of a catering official posted in Lahore for attempted heroin smuggling, its spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. “During the interrogation the official had confessed of being involved in the recent incident of attempted heroin smuggling,” he said. Last week, the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) took four PIA employees into custody in connection with a failed bid to smuggle 6kg of heroin (worth over Rs60 million) to Dubai from Lahore. It was connected...

A 26-year-old former ramp agent at Palm Beach International Airport pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally trying to help unknown men get a quarter of a million dollars through security and onto a plane in March. Jean Yves Selius, of Boynton Beach, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful money transmitting in connection with his illicit work. He faces a maximum five-year prison term when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra on Oct. 28. He could get far...

Another Vancouver airport employee has been stripped of their security clearance — and lost their job — over an organized crime scare, this time after an Air Canada staffer was found in the United States carrying almost 12 kilograms of marijuana and more than $353,000 in bulk currency near the Canadian border. David Sargeant, 50, was an airline ground employee for almost 30 years, working as a station attendant at Vancouver International Airport, mainly doing baggage handling, towing aircraft and...

Pakistan has arrested at least 12 staff of its national carrier following the discovery of 6 kg (13.23 lb) of heroin in the toilet of an aircraft bound for Dubai, an airline spokesman said on Monday. The latest instance of misbehaviour by the staff of cash-strapped Pakistan International Airlines was uncovered after the military-run Anti-Narcotics Force raided a flight from Lahore to Dubai flight on Saturday, Danyal Gilani said. "Around a dozen employees of PIA have been detained and are...