Worst Airline Ever – Details, episodes & analysis

Gillian and JJ introduce themselves, how they got into tracking ICE flights, and why ICE Air is so awful and plays such a crucial role in Trump's "deportation machine."

SHOW NOTES:

Tools

Habeas Flight Watch - https://lexingtonalarm.org/hfw-dashboard/

ICE Flight Monitor at Human Rights First, April 2026 Report - https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/ice-flight-monitor-april-2026-report/

ICE Air FAQ - https://gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-air/

Stories

Meet the ICE Contractor Running Deportation Flights, by Nick Schwellenbach, POGO https://www.pogo.org/investigates/meet-the-ice-contractor-running-deportation-flights

ICE Deportation Flights are Getting Longer and Crueler, by Gillian Brockell for Mother Jones - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/

Inside ICE Air: What It's Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant, by McKenzie Funk, ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say, by Hamed Aleaziz & Megha Rajagopalan, NYT - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world/africa/deportations-central-african-republic-migrants-iran-women.html

Bill Gates Has A Link to ICE's Deportation Flights, by Matt Shuham, HuffPost - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-trump-ice-signature-aviation_n_68acd96fe4b0d17ae21e7ec4

The Private Jet to Hell, One Year Later, by Gillian

https://gillianbrockell.com/the-private-jet-to-hell-one-year-later/