HONOLULU January 20, 2010 – go! Mokulele announced preliminary traffic from its joint-venture operations for December 2009. The combined operations generated 12.48 million available seat miles and 8.20 million revenue passenger miles versus 13.23 million available seat miles and 8.89 million revenue passenger miles in December 2008. go! Mokulele recorded a 65.55 percent load factor compared to 67.12 percent for the same period in 2008 while passenger enplanements were 59,857, a 1.74 percent increase over the 58,833 passengers carried in December 2008. go! Mokulele recorded a 77 percent on time performance for December 2009.

December Results                           Dec-09      Dec-08    Change  

Revenue Passenger Miles (000)           8,183        8,881     -7.86%                 

Available Seat Miles (000)                 12,484       13,232     -5.65%                 

Passengers Carried                           59,857      58,833       1.74%                  

Load Factor                                      65.55%      67.12%     (1.6) pts                                                                                                       

Year-to-date Results                        YTD 09        YTD 08    Change 

Revenue Passenger Miles (000)          102,099       116,294     -12.21%               

Available Seat Miles (000)                  152,477        171,896    -11.30%               

Passengers Carried                           714,575        796,507    -10.29%               

Load Factor                                       66.96%        67.65%     (0.7) pts

Paul Skellon, Vice President go! Mokulele said, “We are delighted with the synergies and benefits resulting from our recent joint-venture agreement between go! and Mokulele.” Mr. Skellon continued, “Both brands continue to perform well and have demonstrated they compliment each other nicely.”

“Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein said, “I am 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 Hawaii.”  Mr. Ornstein added,” I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people of Hawaii for their continued support and wish them, our partners and all the team at go! Mokulele, a safe, prosperous 2010.”

Mesa currently operates 130 aircraft with approximately 700 daily system departures to 127 cities, 41 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 go! Mokulele. This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kona, Kahului, Ho’olehua and Lihue. 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.

For further information please contact:

Paul Skellon
Vice President go! Mokulele

Tel. + 808 838 7900