CWA-AFA · Carrier Financials
Avelo Airlines
Tracing money from parent CWA to the CWA-AFA sector to the visible Avelo carrier and local layers.
Quick Read
- Visible structure: the clearest public Avelo money trail is parent CWA to the CWA-AFA sector to AFA MEC Avelo Airlines.
- Most recent verified standalone filing signal: Avelo LEC 29050 LM-4 (FY ending 05/31/2024) reports 127 members, $0 receipts, $0 disbursements, and $0 payments to officers and employees.
- Visible direct local share: 0% in FY2025, 0% in FY2024, and 0% in FY2023, because no Avelo LEC line is visibly itemized in the CWA-AFA sector LM-2 for those years.
- Bottom line: Avelo is a strong example of sector-visible MEC funding with little or no visible local cash flow on the public LM trail.
Filing Map
Avelo has to be read in layers. Parent CWA is the upstream dues layer. The CWA-AFA sector LM-2 is the clearest public source for visible Avelo affiliate funding. At the local layer, the public record currently shows a verified Avelo LEC filing, but that filing reports no visible cash flow for the year shown.
- Parent CWA filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.
- CWA-AFA sector filings: FY ending 05/31/2025; FY ending 05/31/2024; FY ending 05/31/2023.
Standalone MEC and LEC Filing Lookback
- Avelo MEC: FY ending 05/31/2025: no verified standalone DOL filing link is posted here yet; FY ending 05/31/2024: no verified standalone DOL filing link is posted here yet; FY ending 05/31/2023: no verified standalone DOL filing link is posted here yet.
- Avelo LEC: LEC 29050 LM-4 (FY ending 05/31/2024) is the most recent verified standalone local filing posted here. No verified standalone DOL filing link is posted here yet for FY ending 05/31/2025 or FY ending 05/31/2023.
- What the verified local filing shows: LEC 29050 is listed as a Local Executive Council under Flight Attendants ASN, CWA, with unit name Avelo Airlines. It reports 127 members, $0 assets, $0 liabilities, $0 receipts, $0 disbursements, and $0 payments to officers and employees for FY ending 05/31/2024.
Visible CWA-AFA Sector Funding
- FY2025: AFA MEC Avelo Airlines $39,915.
- FY2024: AFA MEC Avelo Airlines $47,459.
- FY2023: AFA MEC Avelo Airlines $28,961.
The sector LM-2 shows visible Avelo funding going to the MEC line. It does not visibly itemize an Avelo LEC funding line in these three years.
What the Visible Direct Local Share Means
This metric measures the percentage of visible Avelo-specific CWA-AFA sector funding that went directly to a named Avelo LEC rather than to the Avelo MEC.
Formula: direct named Avelo LEC funding ÷ total visible Avelo-specific CWA-AFA sector funding.
- FY2025: 0 ÷ 39,915 = 0%.
- FY2024: 0 ÷ 47,459 = 0%.
- FY2023: 0 ÷ 28,961 = 0%.
Treat this as a floor, not a complete service measure. It captures only direct Avelo-specific CWA-AFA sector funding lines that are publicly visible on the sector LM-2. It does not capture all upstream support, bargaining support, legal work, release-time value, or overhead that may still benefit Avelo members.
Negotiations and Representation Visibility
AFA announced that Avelo flight attendants secured representation in April 2022 and immediately requested that management enter negotiations. AFA also said that Avelo flight attendants would elect representatives from among their ranks and have union experts working with them through the bargaining process.
The financial record visible here is still much clearer at the sector-to-MEC layer than at the local-cash-flow layer. That means public evidence of representation exists, but the dollar trail is not yet as transparent locally as it is for some other carriers.
For a deeper explanation of how CWA-AFA negotiating committees are chosen, how staff negotiators are assigned, and where compensation appears in public reporting, see How CWA-AFA Negotiating Committees and Staff Negotiators Work .
Interpretive Caution
Avelo is a very useful carrier for comparison because the public record is simple: visible CWA-AFA sector funding goes to the MEC, while the verified standalone local filing shows a real local body with 127 members but no visible receipts or disbursements in FY2024.
That does not prove no local service was rendered. It does show that the public LM trail is much less transparent at the local-dollar level than Air Wisconsin’s. For CrewSignal’s purposes, that makes Avelo a weaker dues-to-local-service throughline than carriers where local-level cash movement is more directly visible.