Avelo Airlines is cutting ties with ICE less than a year after inking a deal to carry out deportations for the agency.
Avelo appears to be the only commercial airline carrying out full aircraft deportation flights on a regular schedule for ICE.
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The progressive group Gen-Z for Change created a tool allowing people to overwhelm Avelo with useless applications in response to its job postings for the deportation flights.
Seth Miller, an independent aviation journalist and New Hampshire state lawmaker, launched advertisements on two billboards near Tweed New Haven Airport with the message: "Does your vacation support their deportation? Just say AvelNO!"
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CEO Andrew Levy, in an email to employees viewed by CNBC, said that "We moved a portion of our fleet into a government program which promised more financial stability but placed us in the center of a political controversy."
Axios
UPDATE 01/09/2026:
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