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A veteran female pilot is suing Avelo Airlines for sex discrimination after she claims she was fired for repeatedly raising safety concerns at the low-cost carrier.

Kimberley Duffy who is the only female Captain at Avelo Airlines has filed her lawsuit in a Connecticut district court. She says male colleagues and managers labelled her as having a "superior attitude" after she flagged what she believed were serious safety breaches.

The lawsuit lists a range of alleged violations including incorrect emergency reference material in Boeing 737 handbooks, claims that wing anti-icing was described as never needed and alleged manipulation of pilot duty hours to get around FAA fatigue rules.

Duffy also claims she was fired days after reporting another Captain to both Avelo and the FAA following a flight from New Haven to Tampa in February 2025.

Despite agreeing to resign rather than face dismissal, Avelo recorded her departure as "terminated" on the FAA Pilot Record Database which could affect her chances of being hired elsewhere.

Avelo has not yet responded to the complaint.

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Avelo Airlines Fired its Only Female Captain Because Male Pilots Thought She Had a 'Superior Attitude,' Stunning Lawsuit Alleges

Avelo Airlines, the low-cost airline that made a brief foray into becoming an ‘ICE Air’ contractor for controversial deportation flights, allegedly fired its only female Captain after sexist male colleagues and managers labelled her as having a “superior attitude” because she dared to raise...
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Somebody posted about this on Reddit and one of the user pointed out this is definitely not the first airline she’s been fired from and subsequently sued. I don’t think there is more to the story but that would be a next obvious verse in this song.
 
Honest question, considering her apparent penchant for “turning other pilots into the company AND the FAA”, what would happen if everyone at said legacy had her on the “do not schedule me with” list? Does someone just eventually end up with the short straw?
 
Wardogg said:
Honest question, considering her apparent penchant for “turning other pilots into the company AND the FAA”, what would happen if everyone at said legacy had her on the “do not schedule me with” list? Does someone just eventually end up with the short straw?
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We had that issue with a checkpilot. They eventually removed him from the program.

On the line side, FOs can no bid a captain in PBS, but reserves can refuse an assignment due to the other crew member (beyond just calling in sick). Captain's can't no bid FOs (because of the order of the PBS runs), but can always tell their CP to either swap out the FO or deal with a last minute sick call.

When I was a pretty new 717 FO, the first month I had a line, I got a call from scheduling telling me they were swapping me to a different (way less desirable) trip and putting that FO on my trip. I asked why but they said that "management" had told them to do so. Turns out that the other FO had been dating two of the three FAs on his trip, without them knowing about each other, and they both refused to fly with him. So instead of recrewing 2 FAs (or 1 FO), they swapped us. Fortunately the captain was cool so it wasn't a totally bad day.
 
BobDDuck said:
On the line side, FOs can no bid a captain in PBS, but reserves can refuse an assignment due to the other crew member (beyond just calling in sick).
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Interesting, I'm guessing that's contractual there? I can't imagine that going well over here and I always wonder how it'd work in the instance an original captain calls out and an FO's bid avoid picks up the trip on premium or reserve, either as a lineholder or not.

There were a few problem children captains at a previous airline who would seem to bounce around from base to base almost monthly. The chatter was that they eventually "couldn't play nice" with enough FOs and were told "we think it would be better if you transferred bases", but I have no idea if that was true. I know a couple of them bounced around and eventually weren't on the seniority list, I assume the company just got tired of having to deal with them in every base.
 
Wardogg said:
Words have meanings. None of those you used seem to convey the message you want to get out. You literally attributed a cause that has nothing to do with the topic at hand and then made up a word to justify your point.

You’re doing great.
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I'm real curious. Please elaborate.
 
JordanD said:
There were a few problem children captains at a previous airline who would seem to bounce around from base to base almost monthly. The chatter was that they eventually "couldn't play nice" with enough FOs and were told "we think it would be better if you transferred bases", but I have no idea if that was true. I know a couple of them bounced around and eventually weren't on the seniority list, I assume the company just got tired of having to deal with them in every base.
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AA did that, too. If enough FOs put a Captain on the Bid Avoid/No Fly list, that Captain would be transferred to another base. I'm pretty sure we had one that had involuntarily seen every crew base AA had. It may have been the same one that the FOs started stealing his landing credit without him knowing about it (the joy of archaic ACARS codes).
 
JordanD said:
There were a few problem children captains at a previous airline who would seem to bounce around from base to base almost monthly. The chatter was that they eventually "couldn't play nice" with enough FOs and were told "we think it would be better if you transferred bases", but I have no idea if that was true.
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When I was at C5 there was a rumor like that about a captain there. I'm quite sure it's false as he re-based from EWR to IAD right around the time our mainline partner dropped their route from his hometown to EWR but kept serving it from IAD, which suggests he voluntarily rebased for a less difficult commute.
 
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