HONOLULU March 8, 2010 – go! Mokulele today reported preliminary traffic figures for February 2010 and noted it generated 9.45 million available seat miles and 6.63 million revenue passenger miles versus 12.00 million available seat miles and 7.95 million revenue passenger miles in February 2009. go! Mokulele recorded a 70.13 percent load factor compared to 66.23 percent for the same period in 2009 while passenger enplanements were 50,590 compared to 56,052 passengers carried in February 2009. go! Mokulele recorded an 82.3 percent on time performance for February 2009.


February Results                        Feb-10          Feb-09        Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000)     6,630            7,949       -16.60%
Available Seat Miles (000)             9,453          12,002       -21.24%
Passengers Carried                     50,590          56,052       -9.74%
Load Factor                                70.13%         66.23%       3.9 pts


Year-to-date Results                    YTD 10          YTD 09        Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000)    13,518           16,530       -18.22%
Available Seat Miles (000)            20,696           25,285       -18.15%
Passengers Carried                    100,915         114,268       -11.69%
Load Factor                                 65.31%           65.38%     (0.1) pts

Paul Skellon, Vice President go! said, “While capacity adjustments provided for improved passenger loads, the decline in Hawai’i visitor numbers and the seasonally quiet demand for inter-island travel resulted in fewer overall travelers compared the same period last year.” Mr. Skellon continued, “We are however seeing an encouraging demand for travel in the coming months as people make plans for spring break, the Merrie Monarch festival and the Easter holidays.”

Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein, said, “We are cautiously optimistic that as confidence returns to the travel market in 2010, our convenient schedules and low fares will continue to make an important contribution to the growth and development of tourism and business throughout Hawai’i.” Mr. Ornstein added, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people of Hawai’i for their continued support and our partners and all the team at go! Mokulele for their commitment and hard work.”

Mesa currently operates 113 aircraft with over 650 daily system departures to 120 cities, 39 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. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go! and in October 2009 formed a joint-venture with Mokulele Airlines. The go! Mokulele operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona, Ho’olehua and Lihu’e. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 3,500 employees.

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.