PHOENIX, July 6, 2006 -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MESA) today reported its preliminary traffic figures for June 2006.

 

June Results - Mesa Air Group Jun-06 Jun-05 Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 617,833 585,176 5.6%
Available Seat Miles (000) 765,315 787,233 -2.8%
Passengers Carried 1,348,701 1,205,873 11.8%
Load Factor 80.7% 74.3% 6.4

 

Year-to-date Results YTD 06 YTD 05 Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 3,414,338 3,094,025 10.3%
Available Seat Miles (000) 4,466,611 4,334,638 3.0%
Passengers Carried 7,356,756 6,554,638 12.2%
Load Factor 76.4% 71.4% 5.0pts

 

 

"June weather was particularly harsh this year as severe thunderstorms and the resulting air traffic control disruptions impacted our Midwestern and East Coast operations," said Mesa Air Group Chairman & CEO Jonathan Ornstein. "We would like to thank our partner airlines for their assistance and our employees for their efforts in this difficult environment."

Mesa launched their independent Hawaii division named go! on June 9th. For the period of June 9 through 30, go! had an overall completion factor of 100%. go!'s on time arrival rate for June was 88.9%. During its 22 days of operation in June, go! produced a load factor of 82.5%.

"The highlight of June was the launch of our new Hawaii division, go!. We would like to thank our new customers for their support and extend a warm 'mahalo' to all the people who have greeted us so warmly," Ornstein added. "We would also like to thank our go! employees and service partners who performed flawlessly during the start up. We are delighted with the initial traffic figures and look forward to providing a consistent, high quality product in the interisland market at the lowest possible price."

For further information regarding this press release please contact Brian Gillman at 602-685-4000 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.mesa-air.com.