Iraq: High salaries prevent Airlines staff from requesting for asylum

Iraqi media reports indicated that “many of the staff crew of Iraqi Airlines and aircraft protection invest their Iraqi trips to Europe for obtaining residence and then move their families to the State and obtaining humanitarian asylum “.
It showed that “a number of those bodyguards and Iraqi crews already left Iraq and settled in those European countries.”
The media adviser to the Ministry of Transport , Karim Nuri said in an interview for "Shafaq News" that " such a thing didn’t happen in the Iraqi Airways at all, and we deny this news “.
“The high salaries and other benefits received by employees of Iraqi Airways prevent them to leave their jobs and seek behind the humanitarian asylum in other countries as it is only a rumor,” He added.