Salem’s new airline partner has anti-union past (and present)

Avelo’s management has been battling its own flight attendants for years

The reboot effort on commercial air service at Salem Municipal Airport finds the city partnered up with a start-up airline waging war on unionization efforts among its employees.

Flight attendants with Avelo Airlines voted to unionize in early 2022, but executives with the ultra-low cost, Houston-based airline have been challenging that action ever since.