HONOLULU – go! Mokulele today reported preliminary traffic figures for July 2010 and noted it generated 11.98 million available seat miles and 8.91 million revenue passenger miles versus 13.87 million available seat miles and 10.25 million revenue passenger miles in July 2009. go! Mokulele recorded a 74 percent load factor compared to 74 percent for the same period in 2009 while passenger enplanements were 68,967 compared to 72,573 passengers carried in July 2009.

July Results                                    Jul-10        Jul-09       Change 

Revenue Passenger Miles (000)         8,907        10,247        -13.07% 
Available Seat Miles (000)                11,975        13,871       -13.67% 
Passengers Carried                         68,967         72,573       -4.97% 
Load Factor                                    74.38%        73.87%      0.5 pts

 

                                                                                                                                            

Year-to-date Results                        YTD 10     YTD 09     Change   

Revenue Passenger Miles (000)   51,660    62,908   -17.88% 
Available Seat Miles (000)          75,683    93,091   -18.70% 
Passengers Carried                  391,878  435,790   -10.08% 
Load Factor                            68.26%   67.58%    0.7 pts

“We are encouraged by the continued improvement in the travel market this summer.  With our convenient schedules and low fares we aim to make an important contribution to the growth and development of tourism and other business throughout the state,” said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa Air Group, Inc. CEO.  “It is our continuing mission to help the state’s friends, families and business people to visit each other more frequently,” he continued.

UPDATE: Mesa currently operates 87 aircraft with over 525 daily system departures to 82 cities, 33 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 Hawai’i 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, Lana’i and Lihu’e utilizing 5 CRJ-200 aircraft operated by Mesa Airlines and 4 Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft operated by Mokulele Flight Service. Mesa, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 2,800 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.
 
For further information please contact:
Jonathan Ornstein
CEO, Mesa Air Group, Inc.
Tel. +1 602 685 4010
www.iflygo.com