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Mesa Air Group, Inc. Reports June 2007 Traffic Including Go!, Hawaii's Low Fare Airline

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 09:22 CDT

PHOENIX, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. reported its preliminary traffic figures, on-time performance and completion rate figures for June 2007. Year-over-year available seat miles increased 0.16% in June 2007 to 767 million, compared to 765 million in June 2006. Revenue passenger miles increased 3.08% from 341 million in 2006 to 352 million in 2007. Passenger enplanements increased 13.59% from 7,356,756 in June 2006 to 8,356,278 in June 2007. Year-over-year load factor for the month of June increased from 76.44% in 2006 to 76.62% in 2007.

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June was another month of strong operational performance for Mesa's independent Hawaii division go!. The inter-island Hawaii operation recorded an overall completion factor of 99.44% and on-time arrival rate of 85.37%. go! generated 12.82 million available seat miles, 9.24 million revenue passenger miles and 63,965 passenger enplanements, resulting in a load factor of 72.07%.

Based on recently released data in the Air Travel Consumer Report issued by the Department of Transportation, if go! was an independently operated airline, it would have ranked second among major airlines for mishandled baggage in May 2007. go! mishandled only 3.26 bags per 1,000 passengers. In addition, go! received no consumer complaints filed with the DOT for May 2007, which would have made it the number one carrier and the only carrier with zero consumer complaints.

Throughout the month of June, go! also brought attention to its go!Miles frequent flyer program, increasing the number of members by 25% and the number of customers registered for email promotional alerts by 100%. Passengers who register for the go!Miles frequent flyer program are able to earn go!Miles redeemable for future travel and can receive 500 free miles by registering online.

"We are very encouraged that go!'s success in Hawaii has attracted an increasing number of local businesses to advertise on iflygo.com and to forge strong partnerships with us," said Frank Among, Vice President of E-Commerce for go!. "We look forward to rolling out enhancements to the website in the weeks ahead as we further develop this area of our business."

June Results Jun-07 Jun-06 Change Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 621,100 617,833 0.53 % Available Seat Miles (000) 766,574 765,315 0.16 % Passengers Carried 1,466,185 1,348,701 8.71 % Load Factor 81.02% 80.73% 0.3 Year-to-date Results YTD 07 YTD 06 Change Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 3,519,537 3,414,338 3.08 % Available Seat Miles (000) 4,593,792 4,466,611 2.85 % Passengers Carried 8,356,278 7,356,756 13.59 % Load Factor 76.62% 76.44% 0.2

"Adverse weather conditions in the north east and severe ATC issues combined at times to make June a challenging month operationally. Once again our people met those challenges and did an outstanding job. I wish to thank them for their continued excellent work. I would also like to thank our Airline partners for their continued support," said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein. "I am delighted that our low fares and high quality service at go! are enabling more people in Hawaii to visit friends and family more often."

Mesa currently operates 200 aircraft with over 1,300 daily system departures to 181 cities, 46 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. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected. For further information regarding this press release please visit our website at http://www.mesa-air.com/.

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Mesa Air Group, Inc.

CONTACT: Paul Skellon of Mesa Air 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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