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Air Wisconsin

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What Air Wisconsin is now

Air Wisconsin is not defunct — but it is no longer the airline you may remember, and almost everything written about its flight attendant job before 2025 describes an operation that no longer exists.

The timeline, from the reporting record:

  • April 3–4, 2025: the American Eagle contract ended and all scheduled passenger flying stopped the next day. Hundreds were laid off in Appleton and Milwaukee, including the flight attendant workforce.
  • September 2025: the company's sole Essential Air Service award (Parkersburg–Charlotte) was abandoned before service began — the last scheduled-passenger thread cut.
  • December 19, 2025 → January 9, 2026: Harbor Diversified sold 100% of Air Wisconsin and its 13 CRJ200s to CSI Aviation, an Albuquerque-based government charter company that serves as ICE's air-charter broker (holding a roughly $1.5B DHS contract from November 2025). The sale closed January 9, 2026.
  • Since mid-January 2026: Air Wisconsin's CRJ200s fly government charter work from Milwaukee — principally ICE detainee-transfer/deportation-support flights toward Texas and Louisiana detention hubs, per flight-tracking reporting by Wisconsin Watch and MinnPost. Monthly trips jumped from about 60 in December 2025 to 125+ in January 2026.

There is no partner-brand service standard anymore — no American Eagle, no United Express. The mission itself is the dominant fact about this job, and it involves a genuine personal decision: when furloughed flight attendants were recalled after the sale (with an immediate raise negotiated by their union, AFA-CWA), only about a third opted to return, per AFA's January 2026 release as covered by Wisconsin Watch and Civic Media. We state that fact plainly and neutrally; the decision is yours.

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Sources listed at the end of each profile. Data compiled from airline careers pages, union publications, industry press, and candidate-reported interview intel — wave-dependent facts carry as-of dates.

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