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Appeals On Wheels: Asylum Airways Offers Immigrants Free One-Way Trips

by | 27th, December 2007

clusterballoon.jpgALL aboard Asylum Airways.

Daily Express readers can rest easy. It’s not a re-branded Ariana Airlines, the carrier that brought Afghan hijackers to the UK in 2000. This is a service taking asylum seekers away from Blighty.

Asylum Airways is run by Austrian aviation consultant Heinz Berger. His plan is to offer a kind of Appeals On Wheels bus service, his jets flying around Europe picking up failed asylum seekers and dropping them off somewhere else.

The planes will boast padded rooms, restraints and straps. Mr Berger may have confused political asylum for a lunatic asylum, but Easy jet services to Faliraki are looking on with envy, and interest.

The Independent has a picture of Mr Berger holding a model plane that looks not unlike the kind of vehicle that drops parcels of grain and Blue Peter badges on impoverished Africans.

Might it be that to save the bother of landing the aircraft, and keep carbon footprints to a minimum, Mr Berger’s aircraft will not so much land as dip?

Should Mr Berger’s service solve the asylum issue, expect other similar initiatives, such NHS Air, Credit Crunch Air and for global warmists, Hot Air…

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