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Mesa Air Group, Inc. Reports October Traffic Including Go! Hawai'I's Low Fare Airline

Posted on: Friday, 9 November 2007, 09:00 CST

PHOENIX, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. reported its preliminary traffic figures for October 2007. Year-over-year available seat miles decreased 8.21% in October 2007 to 725,259 compared to 790,111 in October 2006. Revenue passenger miles decreased 5.74% from 574,080 in 2006 to 541,149 in 2007. Passenger enplanements decreased 2.97% from 1,321,779 in October 2006 to 1,282,516 in October 2007. Year-over-year load factor for the month of October increased from 72.66% in 2006 to 74.61% in 2007.

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go!'s preliminary traffic figures for October 2007 indicate that its operations generated 11.41 million available seat miles, 7.67 million revenue passenger miles and 53,559 passenger enplanements resulting in a load factor of 67.23%, compared to 62.9% in 2006. Hawai'i's low fare leader also recorded an on-time performance rate of 84.35% and an overall completion factor of 97.43% for October 2007.

October Results Oct-07 Oct-06 Change Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 541,149 574,080 -5.74% Available Seat Miles (000) 725,259 790,111 -8.21% Passengers Carried 1,282,516 1,321,779 -2.97% Load Factor 74.61% 72.66% 2.0 pts Year-to-date Results YTD 07 YTD 06 Change Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 5,780,521 5,754,159 0.46% Available Seat Miles (000) 7,555,787 7,595,694 -0.53% Passengers Carried 13,682,231 12,698,328 7.75% Load Factor 76.50% 75.76% 0.7 pts

"During October, Mesa took delivery of the first two of 14 CRJ-900 NextGen aircraft which are now being operated by Freedom Airlines for Delta Connection," said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein. "These new aircraft, configured with 12 First Class and 64 Coach Class seats, represent a great opportunity to expand our relationship with Delta. Once all 14 aircraft are delivered, we will operate a total of 50 aircraft under the Delta Connection banner." Mr. Ornstein added, "While the month was not without its challenges, our operating performance has remained strong in October and that's a credit to our people all around the country who continue to do a really outstanding job. I wish to thank them all, as well as our airline partners for their on-going support and contribution to our excellent operational results."

Mesa currently operates 184 aircraft with over 1,100 daily system departures to 184 cities, 45 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Bahamas and Mexico. Mesa operates as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines and go!. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go!. This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 5,000 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

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Mesa Air Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Paul Skellon, Vice President Corporate Communications of MesaAir Group, Inc., +1-602-685-4162, paul.skellon@mesa-air.com

Web site: http://www.mesa-air.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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