https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13128565/British-Airways-supervisor-run-India-organising-3m-immigration-scam-Heathrow-check-desk-five-years.html

more bad news for BA.   dear dear dear

A 24-year-old "supervisor"??

15 minutes ago, Bob Scott said:

A 24-year-old "supervisor"??

DEI might just 'possibly' be a part of this equation perhaps....?

 

27 minutes ago, Bob Scott said:

A 24-year-old "supervisor"??

their in-flight managers (or whatever a csd is called nowadays)  and pilots are younger...

Edited March 1, 20242 yr by fluffyflops

18 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

their in-flight managers (or whatever a csd is called nowadays)  and pilots are younger...

Well, it said he's been at this for 5 years, so he was a "supervisor" at age 19??

Sounds to me as if the culprit is just the British version of a coy-ote... common here in The States. Another link in the Global illegal Immigration trade. Here one day, gone tomorrow... vanishing in the sea of People.

They sure do hire 'em young at BA...

1 hour ago, Bob Scott said:

Well, it said he's been at this for 5 years, so he was a "supervisor" at age 19??

oh hes back in india now with over 2 million quid..  you wont see him again.

Edited March 2, 20242 yr by fluffyflops

1 hour ago, Bob Scott said:

Well, it said he's been at this for 5 years, so he was a "supervisor" at age 19??

He’s a supervisor at a check-in desk. Sounds like he’s of Indian origin as the newspaper included this which amazed me… “The suspect was arrested on January 6 but fled to India, where he is understood to have several homes.”

Several homes at that age! I imagine the Indian authorities will track him down and return him for prosecution. Then when found guilty send him to an Indian jail to serve his sentence.

 

22 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

He’s a supervisor at a check-in desk. Sounds like he’s of Indian origin as the newspaper included this which amazed me… “The suspect was arrested on January 6 but fled to India, where he is understood to have several homes.”

Several homes at that age! I imagine the Indian authorities will track him down and return him for prosecution. Then when found guilty send him to an Indian jail to serve his sentence.

The offence was commited here not India.  There is a extradiction treaty with India. If he is found and comes back, he will do time in the UK not India one would imagine

Whats also interesting is they havent released how he was advertising his "business".  all very hush hush if you ask me.

whats interesting is you normally cant issue a boarding card without a visa or eTA for Canada, he must of found quite a good loophole in the BA system to be able to do it.

Edited March 3, 20242 yr by fluffyflops

Once again (and this can't possibly be iterated enough), but this is DEI at work. We all know this. This gentleman was found at the ripe old age of 19(🤪) to be having qualities above and beyond his 'peers' for 'reasons' and hence he was put in this position. No one dared question this.

There sure must have been signs of malfeasance before all of this blew up. This gentleman have, over the years prior, made insane amounts of money, and I can bet a substantial amount of money that people of another, more 'original' background have noticed this but they simply could not tell anyone as that would make them unemployed and unemployable.

Now awaiting thread closure or this post being vanished for some very strange reason. 

1 hour ago, fluffyflops said:

The offence was commited here not India.  There is a extradiction treaty with India. If he is found and comes back, he will do time in the UK not India one would imagine

Serving a jail term in India was more in hope than expectation.

1 hour ago, fluffyflops said:

If he is found and comes back, he will do time in the UK not India one would imagine

I don't know about the UK and India but there have been a few special cases where Canadians have been convicted in the USA but were allowed to serve their jail time back in Canada.

2 hours ago, Swe_Richard said:

Once again (and this can't possibly be iterated enough), but this is DEI at work. We all know this. This gentleman was found at the ripe old age of 19(🤪) to be having qualities above and beyond his 'peers' for 'reasons' and hence he was put in this position. No one dared question this.

There sure must have been signs of malfeasance before all of this blew up. This gentleman have, over the years prior, made insane amounts of money, and I can bet a substantial amount of money that people of another, more 'original' background have noticed this but they simply could not tell anyone as that would make them unemployed and unemployable.

Now awaiting thread closure or this post being vanished for some very strange reason. 

he was only a check in supervisor, and its not really not that high a postion to be fair. 

Hes not a nomited CAA post holder, nor was he was he a station manager, nor even a duty manager.

Hes a guy that found a way to bypass the check in system to print a boarding card, and then at the gate he found a way to swip the boarding card, bypassing the system again (in order for the head count to be right) 

He needed to be at present both points for it to work, both at the check in desk and also at the gate, for the "scam" to work, which makes sense. 

secondly Im not sure if he held that postion since 19, he might of done 2 years as a regular CSA and then moved up to a check in supervisor at say 21,  again not all that out of the ordinary. 

Most of the UK airlines, will let you be cabin crew at 18, so its not all that uncommon for a check in supervisor to be very young too. We have very very young staff at my airline who are ground staff, its hard to get people older to do it as the money isnt great.

what will be interesting is how is how he was advertising his services in India.   

 

Edited March 3, 20242 yr by fluffyflops