Contacting Airlines About Removals/Deportations

This guide from Right to Remain explains how to mount a last-minute airline campaign when someone faces forced removal or deportation on a scheduled commercial flight. It covers how to identify the operating airline from removal directions documents, how to coordinate supporters to contact the airline by phone, email, fax, and social media, and how to communicate effectively with airline staff and pilots — who have the legal power to refuse to carry a passenger if they consider it a safety risk. The guide also addresses the option of public campaigning via social media, solidarity demonstrations at airports, and the person facing removal speaking directly to airline staff, while noting important safety caveats around making personal details public and the limits of this approach for charter flights.