The country's 21 regions will operate ambulance flights through the municipal association Swedish Ambulance Flights.

This means that the ambulance flight in Luleå will be closed when the current company's contract expires last December this year.

Swedish Ambulance Flight decided last week to accept a Norwegian company's tender for pilots and co-pilots to man the ambulance flight in the country.

But now that decision is being appealed to the administrative court by the Ambulance Association and a competing airline.

This is the second time the case has been appealed.

Risk of wage dumping

The Ambulance Association believes that the accepted tender is abnormally low and that it differs several million kronor compared with other tenderers.

- We have calculated what it costs to have 37 pilots and helmsmen employed and we see how much has been offered and how much it differs between the different players.

And we are talking about at least a halving of the salaries for many of the pilots, says the union's chairman Henrik Johansson.

Did not follow the law

It is also referred to that the contracting authority is required by law to require a supplier to declare an abnormally low tender.

- The legislation is very clear.

If there is the slightest thought that this may be a bid that is too good to be true then you need to get an explanation from the bidder.

And that has not been done in this case.

SVT Nyheter Norrbotten has contacted Svenskt Ambulansflyg's union director, Andreas Eriksson, who via his press contact announces that he does not have time to be interviewed.

He also believes that there is nothing to add other than that the decision has been appealed.