2022 UK charter deportations: a balance sheet In 2022, the UK deported 1,566 people to nine countries on 62 specially-chartered flights (1) flown by eight airlines (2). The figures are a little higher than 2021, when 1,305 people were deported on 65 charter flights. Combining Freedom of Information requests by Patrice Petit with flight data available via flight tracking websites, Corporate Watch can reveal which companies carried out these flights, and how much money the Home Office paid them to do it. The flights and the people In terms of destinations, deportation charter flights in 2022 followed similar patterns to…
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Air Partner: the Home Office’s little-known deportation fixer
Air Partner: the Home Office’s little-known deportation fixer Air Partner and Carlson Wagonlit are the grease spinning the wheels of the UK deportation machine, organising logistics for mass-deportation flights for years. International travel megacorp Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) holds a £5.7 million, seven-year contract with the Home Office for the “provision of travel services for immigration purposes”, as it has done for nearly two decades. However, a key part of its work – the chartering of aircraft and crew to carry out the deportations – has been subcontracted to a little-known aviation charter outfit called Air Partner. Summary Digging deeper…