The Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport will see its last Avelo Airlines flight on Aug. 11. (Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle)

A budget Texas airline that has drawn protests for making deportation flights amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration said it will end service to California cities this year, including Santa Rosa.

An Avelo Airlines spokesperson said the company's flights out of Sonoma County's Charles M. Schulz Airport and Hollywood Burbank Airport were not profitable enough, and that protests that erupted this spring over the company's contract with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement "did not influence the decision."

"Despite the investment of significant time, resources and efforts, our West Coast operations have not produced the results necessary to continue our presence there," Avelo spokesperson Madison Glassman said.

Avelo chief executive Andrew Levy has previously said his company was losing money, and the ICE contract was "too valuable not to pursue," according to reporting by ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal.

People protest Avelo Airlines' decision to fly deportation flights for ICE at the entrance to Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, as seen on May 12. (Arnold Gold/Hearst Connecticut Media)

Avelo will continue flying regular service out of its East Coast bases in North Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Avelo will continue flying out of Santa Rosa for another five weeks with service to Kalispell, Mont., Redmond, Ore., Las Vegas and Burbank. The last flights out of Santa Rosa will land in Las Vegas and Burbank on Aug. 11. Service out of Burbank will end Dec. 2.

Avelo Airlines will continue flying out of its East Coast bases in North Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida, even as it leaves California. (Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle)

In a statement, Levy said that "there is rarely one singular reason why decisions like this are made" and added that continuing flights from Burbank "will not deliver adequate financial returns in a highly competitive backdrop."

Avelo's inaugural flight, four years ago in the teeth of the pandemic, went from Burbank to Santa Rosa.

The company's ICE deportation flights began in May out of Mesa, Ariz.