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ICE Air :: Deportation Air Carriers

ICE Air Operations

ICE Air Operations (IAO) is ICE’s primary air transportation division.

IAO stages a total of 12 aircraft at its operational locations in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.



ICE Air based in Mesa, Arizona has additional locations in San Antonio and Brownsville in Texas, Alexandria in Louisiana, and Miami in Florida. They are staging areas for deportations.

It supports 24 ICE field offices with the transfer and removal of noncitizens via chartered and commercial flights.

There are many U.S.-flagged airlines taking the ICE charter contracts, including the reinvented Eastern Airlines which converted a 767 used for the New England Patriots to handle deportations to Brazil and Venezuela.

Private air charter companies make billions deporting immigrants with little oversight. A New Mexico firm, CSI Aviation, that donated hundred of thousands of dollars to Trump and GOP super PACs won a $3.6 billion contract.

Air charter companies


ATSG provides cargo aircraft for Amazon, UPS, and DHL. It is also the largest provider of passenger charter flights to the US Department of Defense (DOD) via its Omni Air International subsidiary


an ultra-low cost airline headquartered in Houston, Texas. Avelo is the first commercial airline began deportation flights for (ICE) starting May 12 from Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona.




Classic Air Charter
ICE Air has relied primarily on one broker, Classic Air Charter, for contracting. Public records show Homeland Security awarded that company a contract worth more than $800 million during a period from 2017 to 2023.





New principal broker
With CAC's contract expiring last year, ICE issued an emergency contract valued at $300 million to CSI Aviation, which ran from July 2023 to March of this year, when it was subsequently extended into a full 5-year contract. The total contract ceiling is a whopping $3.6 billion, and unsurprisingly, given this vast amount, legal wrangling is underway between CSI, CAC, and another potential bidder, Chapman Freeborn Airchartering, regarding the awarding of the contract.


At least 40 ICE detainees transferred to border states in overnight flight
Sarah Betancourt February 12, 2025
It is the first large-scale proof that the new Trump administration is transferring scores of detainees out of New England as part of its ongoing effort to deport immigrants, a key campaign promise. A flight on the privately chartered Eastern Air Express, which contracts with the agency, left from Bedford, Massachusetts after 1 a.m. on Feb. 2. On it, according to multiple sources, were about 40 ICE detainees.


Miami-based private charter company Global Crossing Airlines projected that its subcontract to provide flights for ICE was worth $65 million over five years






quickly filled the void as a new sub-contractor for ICE Air. Based in Miami, it is the fastest-growing charter airline in North America
ICE charter flights by GlobalX have been removed from many flight trackers, and given the call sign TYSON --previously associated w/ Secret Service and a B52 bomber squadron.
Joseph Cox, Jason Koebler May 5, 2025


accused by the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights (among others) of committing numerous abuses within its ICE Air operations, including physical abuse, torture, and denial of due process.


has served in an 'overflow' capacity when iAero could not take on a specific flight request and has provided an increased number of flights since iAreo's demise. It has a fleet of five MD-83s, with an average age of 33 years, originally acquired from American Airlines and Alaska Airlines.



has grown to become the world's largest network of Fixed Base Operations (FBOs). Signature is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with over 200 locations.
Bill Gates & the Gates Foundation own 30% of Signature Aviation. It's managed by Cascade Investment LLC worked with Black Rock & Blackstone to purchase Signature in 2021.


ICE Air Operations: Which Aircraft Are Used & How Many Flights Are Operated?

Private Airlines Are Making Billions on Deportations

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”






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