Mesa Air Group, Inc. Reports October 2006 Traffic Including go!, Hawaii's Low Fare Airline

PHOENIX, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA) today reported its preliminary traffic figures for October 2006. Year-over-year available seat miles increased 3.5% in October 2006 to 790 million, compared to 764 million in October 2005. Revenue passenger miles increased 4.8% from 548 million in 2005 to 574 million in 2006. Passenger enplanements increased 15.5% from 1,143,970 in October 2005 to 1,321,779 in October 2006.

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October was the fifth month of operation for Mesa's independent Hawaii division go! Despite the service interruptions caused by this month's earthquake, go! had an overall completion factor of 99.3% and on time arrival rate of 89.4%. go!'s operations generated 13.5 million available seat miles, 8.5 million revenue passenger miles and 60,466 passenger enplanements, resulting in a load factor of 62.9%.

    October Results                    Oct-06        Oct-05       Change
    Revenue Passenger Miles (000)     574,080       547,640         4.8%
    Available Seat Miles (000)        790,111       763,504         3.5%
    Passengers Carried              1,321,779     1,143,970        15.5%
    Load Factor                          72.7%         71.7%        1.0 pts

    Year-to-date Results               YTD 06        YTD 05       Change
    Revenue Passenger Miles (000)   5,754,159     5,335,921         7.8%
    Available Seat Miles (000)      7,595,694     7,450,829         1.9%
    Passengers Carried             12,698,328    11,214,209        13.2%
    Load Factor                          75.8%         71.6%        4.2 pts

"Our fleet transition that began early this year was nearly complete in October," said Mesa Air Group Chairman & CEO Jonathan Ornstein. He continued, "Our independent Hawaiian operation go! continues to perform well despite the interruptions caused by this month's earthquake. We'd like to thank all of our people for their continuing hard work."

Mesa currently operates 198 aircraft with over 1,300 daily system departures to 173 cities, 43 states, Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. Mesa operates as America West Express, Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreement with America West, Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines. Effective June 9, 2006 Mesa launched interisland Hawaiian service as go! This new 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. The Company was named 2005 Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World Magazine.

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