US’s Avelo faces subsidy loss over deportation contract

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It has been widely reported in the press that Avelo Airlines that operates out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport signed a contract with the current presidential administration to begin on May 16, 2025 to transport abducted citizens and non-citizens from the United States to El Salvador or other unknown places. We object to this contract because ...

US’s Avelo faces subsidy loss over deportation contract

William Tong, attorney general of Connecticut, has expressed serious concerns over a charter contract for Avelo Airlines (XP, Burbank) to operate deportation flights on behalf of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement Agency. The state is now reconsidering the support the airline has received through fuel tax exemptions and public promotion. In a letter sent to Avelo’s chairman and chief executive, Andrew Le…