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New airline will fly refugees directly to Sweden

Planes filled with refugees will soon fly directly from refugee camps in the Middle East to Sweden.

While migrants and refugees are risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean in small boats, thousands of tourists use airplanes to fly safely over the sea.

The flights have until now been reserved for tourists, but that is something a new Swedish airline wants to change.

Emad Zand and Susanne Najafi have started the airline Refugee Air to fly refugees from camps in the Middle East directly to Sweden, where they can seek asylum.

- When private companies are competing to send people to the moon, we must also be able to do something to save people in distress, says Emad Zand to the Swedish television program "Gomorron Sverige".

The established airlines are unable to take refugees into Europe, as companies are faced with the responsibility of sending them back if they are not granted asylum.

Refugee Air will assess the refugees' asylum chances before they get on the planes, to ensure that all passengers can get asylum when they arrive in Sweden.

- We will select passengers in cooperation with local relief organizations, said Emad Zand to Gomorron Sweden, and continues.

- We are trying to close a gap that already exists. All agree that it is a bad solution to let children die in boats on the way here.

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http://refugeeair.org/