HONOLULU – go! Mokulele today reported preliminary traffic figures for November 2010 and noted it generated 10.91 million available seat miles and 7.21 million revenue passenger miles versus 12.39 million available seat miles and 8.48 million revenue passenger miles in November 2009. go! Mokulele recorded a 66.09% percent load factor compared to 68.41% percent for the same period in 2009 while passenger enplanements were 55,010 compared to 62,503 passengers carried in November 2009.

“While we experienced a slight year-over-year decline in November traffic, we are seeing improvements in booking trends and a strong holiday travel season is encouraging,” said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa Air Group, Inc., CEO.  “We continue to closely monitor Hawai’i’s travel trends and match our schedules and capacity to meet demand.  For nearly five years we have made it our goal to bring together the friends, families and business people of Hawai’i with exceptional service at the lowest possible fares,” he continued.

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 are the first to hear about the latest deals and specials. 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 77 aircraft with over 450 daily system departures to 92 cities, 36 states, Mexico and the District of Columbia. Mesa operates as US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as go! Mokulele. 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, Kona, Kahului, 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.