News / Ostend Airport fury at 'smear campaign' alleging Libyan arms trafficking flights

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Ostend Airport is considering filing an official complaint after a Belgian newspaper published allegations, apparently backed by UN sources, of illegal arms trafficking from the airport into Libya.

Air cargo services into Libya have been stymied by fighting in the country, but two airlines have this year flown there from Ostend.

One is AHS Air International, which, according to the local media, controversially won an AOC from Pakistan’s civil aviation authority. The carrier is said to be operating former carrier Rayyan Air’s ...