#GhostFlights

2026-02-07

🚨 The #GhostFlights: #Deportation Flights #Disappearing Thousands Arrested by #ICE

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 6, 2026

"We've been tracking the Ghost Flights, disappearing migrants, moms, asylum seekers, and others arrested in Minneapolis, who are quickly grabbed and taken away at a private terminal at Minneapolis international airport.

"The charter airlines are making it harder to track them, but here's what we found: #GlobalX, #Eastern and #Omni based in #TulsaOK, have operated most of these, with Sun Country also operating some of the flights.

"These secretive flights take those arrested to deportation hubs in isolated areas, where they are sent to prison, deported to other countries, or constantly shifted on flights. These secretive hubs are in #DadeCollier in the Florida Everglades; Alexandria in central Louisiana; and Harlingen on the Texas border.

"Those arrested are boarded shackled in chains from their wrists to their feet, and often denied water and food, and abused. While these secretive flights disappear people, their families desperately search for them.

"The flights out of #MesaAZ in the #Phoenix area are deporting hundreds on each flight to #Venezuela. A recent flight out of Mesa deported those arrested to #Russia and #Iran. The past flights show the men were immediately given #Draft notices for military service when they arrived in Russia. Protesters and political #AsylumSeekers face worse.

"As for the chartered airlines, the main contract is held by #CSI in #AlbuquerqueNM, who contracts out the other airlines.

"Yesterday, a Ghost Flight landed in #Guantanamo and then #Haiti. These are #moms, #workers, asylum seekers, #LegalResidents, and most are whisked away and denied due process. More than 2,000 have been deported from #Minneapolis.

"Other major hubs for deportation flights are #ElPaso, #Miami, #SanAntonio, and #TacomaWA. The deportation flights are arriving in every region of the world, the Americas, Asia, and Africa." 😱

Read more (includes flight maps):
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/02

#ReaderSupportedNews #DefundICE #StopTheDeportations #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #ICESucks #KristiNoemSucks #USPol #SilencingDissent #Disappeared #Orwellian

corpwatchcorpwatch
2024-05-08

Qantas to pay A$120 million for selling tickets to flights that had already been canceled as a result of COVID-19 crisis.

edition.cnn.com/2024/05/06/bus

2023-08-09

#Auspol #ClimateCrisis #GhostFlights #QatarAirways #Airlines

We are never going to reduce carbon emissions when governments and businesses exploit loopholes and burn fuel for fun.

“Qatar’s ghost flights – an open secret within the aviation sector – are “taking the piss” out of Australia’s strict aviation laws, industry sources say, and are occurring despite the Albanese government rejecting the airline’s formal request to increase flights out of concern the extra capacity would go against Australia’s “national interest”.

“The Qatari-government owned airline is currently limited to running 28 weekly services into Australia’s four major airports – Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth – allowing it to run once-daily return flights from Doha into each of these cities.

“However, under the existing bilateral agreement, there is no limit placed on how many services Qatar is able to run to non-major airports.”

#loopholes

theguardian.com/world/2023/aug

Stay Grounded NetworkStayGrounded_net
2022-09-30
Khurram Wadee ✅mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk
2022-03-31

#GhostFlights from #UK running at 500 a month, data reveals | Airline #emissions | The Guardian

This is crazy but it’s also because of the ridiculous #Laws regarding retention of #Landing #Slots for #airlines.

theguardian.com/environment/20

#Pollution #AirPollution #FossilFuels #Environmment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Teddy / Domingo (🇨🇵/🇬🇧)TeddyTheBest@framapiaf.org
2022-01-28

Green Peace
RT from nitter.42l.fr/Greenpeace/statu

Appalling.

The EU Commission is casually allowing tens of thousands of empty planes to fly around and pollute because of outdated EU regulations.

It's time to put an end to this nonsense.

#GhostFlights #ProtectPeopleNotPlanes

euobserver.com/climate/154208

#EU #europe #pollution
cc @Greenpeace

Stay Grounded NetworkStayGrounded_net
2022-01-24

In times of climate crisis, you cannot afford any unnecessary flights!

@washingtonpost@twitter.com's @PerryStein@twitter.com interviewed us for this article on in Europe.

washingtonpost.com/world/2022/

Stay Grounded NetworkStayGrounded_net
2020-04-20

In the US, still operate many to get money.

While the number of passengers has plummeted by more than 90 percent, "the number of flights has only dropped something like 50 or 60 percent", @rutherdan@twitter.com told @grist@twitter.com.
grist.org/climate/the-governme

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