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August 3, 2009

 go! Hawaii's Low Fare Airline Reports July 2009 Traffic

Honolulu, HI – go! today reported preliminary traffic figures for July 2009 and noted it achieved a 73.87% load factor compared to 70.40% for the same period in 2008 while passenger enplanements were 72,573, a 5.62% decrease over the 76,895 passengers carried in July 2008. Last month go! generated 13.87 million available seat miles and 10.25 million revenue passenger miles versus 15.67 million available seat miles and 11.03 million revenue passenger miles in July 2008.

Paul Skellon, Vice President go! said, "In spite of the very difficult economic climate which continues to impact Hawaii visitor numbers, we are pleased to have once again achieved a month of higher year over year load factor. It is important we continue to carefully match capacity with demand while maintaining a convenient high-frequency interisland schedule for our business and leisure customers."

Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein said, "I would like to pay tribute to everyone throughout our organization whose commitment and hard work has built a solid foundation for go!'s future growth and success. In spite of falling tourism and a difficult economic environment, we remain optimistic that 2009 will be a year of continuing progress and opportunity for go! and we thank the people and businesses of Hawaii for their continued support during these difficult times."

Passengers who register for go! Miles frequent flyer program are able to earn go! Miles redeemable for travel and can earn 500 miles just by registering online. Members of the program also receive go!'s monthly newsletter with frequent opportunities to win free neighbor island and mainland vacation getaways! Additional information is available and tickets can be booked online at www.iflygo.com or by calling toll free 1-888-IFLYGO2.

Mesa currently operates 144 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 108 cities, 38 states, Canada 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.
 

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.