Passengers will not be allowed to proceed to the screening checkpoint if their temperature, after two separate tests, is at or above 38 degrees, says Transport Canada.

The security firm said they were made aware of the case on Friday, adding that the employee last worked eight days ago. 

The number of travellers in the airport is expected to be 20 per cent higher than usual, with up to 25,000 people flying.

With 50,000 travellers expected to use the Calgary International Airport on Friday, it was expected to be the busiest day of the year for YYC.

Global News analyzed 211 complaints made against CATSA in Edmonton between 2016 and 2018 and found that 52 per cent of them related to long wait times and agent behaviour.

The complaints found some agents yelled at passengers, paraded their underwear in public during baggage searches and threatened them with being able to make their flight.

Travellers can search items to see how they should be packed, make checklists and find out how long it will likely take to get through security in real time.

Fatima Abdelrahman was waiting in line to board her flight to Toronto on Aug. 1 when an Air Canada agent approached her and demanded she remove the religious head covering, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

A deep-cover Hezbollah sleeper agent, Ali Kourani visited Pearson airport seven times and gathered information about security measures there until his arrest in 2017.

A Saskatoon airline passenger has filed a complaint after missing her flight at Skyxe.