A little-known airline is facing backlash from tens of thousands of people after the company agreed to carry out deportation flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Around 30,000 people have signed a petition to boycott Avelo Airlines over the company’s contract with the federal agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation. The boycott of the Texas-based airline comes as federal agents carrying out Trump’s sweeping immigration enforcement actions put women in detention centers described as “hell on earth,” detain people legally allowed to work in the U.S. and sent a Maryland man whom a judge had barred from deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The New Haven Immigrants Coalition, an immigrant rights group based in Connecticut where Avelo has a location, created the petition this week for the airline to end the federal contract. The deportation flights depart from an airport in Arizona. "We demand that AVELO AIR halt plans to carry out deportation flights in cooperation with the Trump Administration," the petition says. "We pledge to boycott the airline until they stop plans to profit off ICE flights that are tearing families and communities apart and removing some legal residents, such as Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, with no recourse for returning to their families." Abrego Garcia is the Maryland man the Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador even though he had a protective order barring his expulsion. Avelo's entry into the deportation business comes as the Trump administration needs more planes to move detainees from one state to another and then to deport them from the U.S. to other countries. Avelo announced the contract with immigration authorities in early April.<br/>
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People in Jersey will be able to fly directly to Bournemouth in 2026 after an airline increased the number of flights it offers to the island. Jet2 will operate the twice-weekly route to the south coast town in England between July and September in 2026. The additional flights are part of a wider expansion by the airline which it said would offer 50% more seats to and from the island compared to 2025. Jersey's government confirmed the expansion was a direct result of its GBP2m funding package to persuade more airlines to fly new routes to the island. The government's Better Business Support Package will spend the GBP2m over 2025 and 2026 to support route development. It has already assisted airline Blue Islands in February by reducing landing fees in Jersey for its service to Paris. Guernsey Ports said the support for Jet2 was "similar" to the assistance given to Blue Islands but did not confirm if it was through reduced landing fees. Ports of Jersey's COO, Stephen King, said the airline's expansion provided "a major boost for connectivity, tourism, and the local economy." Jet2 said the Bournemouth service would provide more than 7,000 seats for both islanders and visitors. It said it would also offer an extra weekly flight to Newcastle and an extended summer seasons for flights to East Midlands and Leeds Bradford airports. "Jet2's continued investment in Jersey is a strong vote of confidence in our Island and its future as an attractive destination," said King.<br/>
Investigators have attributed an EasyJet Airbus A320’s wrong-intersection take-off at Toulouse to the crew’s limited attention capacity – a consequence of high workload – and confirmation bias. The aircraft (G-EJCI) had arrived 90min late into Toulouse on 30 July 2023, putting pressure on the crew during the return service to London Gatwick. Both pilots completed the performance calculations for a runway 32R take-off from intersection N2, which provided 2,300 distance. While they discussed the taxiing route, which was short and simple, they did not discuss the location of the intersection – which was not visible from their parking stand. As the aircraft taxied it was cleared to line up and depart from N2. When the first officer read back the clearance, the aircraft was approaching the N4 intersection. The crew had used an application known as ‘FlySmart+’ for the take-off preparations which showed the location of intersection N2. But it did not display intersection N4, because the data was drawn from EasyJet’s operation. EasyJet did not use N4 – from which a 32R take-off is prohibited for jets over 7t – and the application therefore made N4 unavailable to crews. “It is probable that the incomplete intersection information presented to the crew on the ‘FlySmart+’ app contributed to an inaccurate mental model of the runway layout,” says the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch. The high workload conditions, it adds, resulted in attentional capacity limitations and “suboptimal” situational awareness.<br/>
Two Chinese passengers have been arrested and charged for stealing cash from other travellers on a flight from Macao to Bangkok. The two men, identified only as Han, 54, and Wang, 46, were detained after Air Macau flight NX996 landed at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday, according to Pol Col Seksan Thiraruangrit of the Tourist Police Bureau. The arrest followed an alert from the airline regarding thefts on the aircraft, with both men suspected of the crime. Pol Col Seksan said a passenger saw Wang searching a backpack of another traveller, named only as Trang, placed in the overhead bin and stealing a plastic bag containing Thai baht. Other passengers also noticed Wang and Han leaving their seats to look for bags belonging to others. Police asked Mr Wang and Mr Han for a search after they appeared suspicious upon exiting the aircraft, discovering 30,000 baht in cash belonging to Trang. Another passenger, Ding, also from China, later reported losing 50,000 baht during the flight. The money was found in the possession of the two men. They were charged for thefts in public places. Air Macau flight NX996 departs Macau at 7.40am local time and arrives at Suvarnabhumi at 9.35am.<br/>