NEWS RELEASE

Honolulu – go! today reported preliminary traffic figures for February 2009 and noted it achieved 56,052 passenger enplanements, an 11.90% increase over the 50,090 passengers carried in February 2008. Last month go! generated 12.00 million available seat miles and 7.95 million revenue passenger miles versus 10.97 million available seat miles and 7.23 million revenue passenger miles in February 2008. go!’s load factor for February 2009 was 66.23% compared to 65.92% for the same period in 2008.

“We are once again encouraged by the strong increase in passenger numbers year over year in spite of the current difficult economic climate and falling visitor numbers to Hawaii,” said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “We remain optimistic 2009 will be a year of continuing progress and opportunity for go! and we thank all of our passengers who have helped us grow our business this past year, as well as all of our people who do a truly great job providing outstanding service.” Mr. Ornstein said.

Paul Skellon, Vice President go! said, “go! will continue to provide great opportunities for more people to visit friends and family and for small businesses to grow through exciting offers such as our new $43* fare guarantee program.” Mr. Skellon added, “Later this month we will celebrate flying our first 2 million passengers, an outstanding achievement after less than three years and one that could only have been possible through the support of the people of Hawaii, and the dedication of our people and partners. We wish to thank them all” 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 151 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 119 cities, 36 states, the District of Columbia, 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.

* Offer only available to go!Miles members. To receive a promotion code good for 40 segments at the special $43 fare members must register prior to March 11, 2009. Travel on the special $43 fare must be completed by May 15, 2009. Special fare only valid when booked through iflygo.com or by calling 1-888-iflygo2 with your special Good to go! $43 fare code. Tickets purchased via go! reservations are subject to a $5 fee. Tickets are non-transferable and unused tickets are no longer valid. Special fares are valid per segment and are non-refundable once purchased.Changes can be made prior to scheduled departure for a fee of $20 per person. go!Miles member must enter go!Miles member number and promotional code at iflygo.com at time of booking to be able to book special fares. Fares are subject to seat availability during the travel period shown and may change at any time without notice. Additional costs of $3.60 Federal Segment Excise Tax per segment and a $2.50 per enplanement September 11th Security Fee will be applied to each ticket purchase. Flights operated by Mesa Airlines doing business as go!. Fares are not valid on code share flights or on go!Express flights operated by Mokulele Airlines. Passengers may check their 1st bag for $10 and their 2nd for $17. Other restrictions apply.