Mesa Air Group, Inc. Reports March 2006 Traffic

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Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA) reported its preliminary traffic figures, on-time performance and completion rate figures for March 2006. Year-over-year available seat miles increased 5.8% in March 2006 to 784 million, compared to 741 million in March 2005. Revenue passenger miles increased 13.6% from 537 million in 2005 to 610 million in 2006. Passenger enplanements increased 13.4% from 1,159,732 in March 2005 to 1,314,528 in March 2006. Year-over-year load factor for the month of March increased from 72.5% in 2005 to 77.8% in 2006.
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Mesa Air Group had a controllable completion rate, excluding weather- related cancellations, of 99.0% in March with an on-time arrival performance of 77.0%. Mesa Airlines, which operate regional jets as America West Express, United Express and US Airways Express, had a controllable completion rate of 99.1% in March. Mesa Airline's on-time arrival performance for the month of March was 76.8%. Freedom Airlines, which operates regional jets as Delta Connection, had a controllable completion rate of 99.8%. Freedom Airline's on-time arrival performance for the month of March was 73.1%. Air Midwest, which operates Mesa's 19-seat turboprops under pro-rate revenue-sharing agreements, reported a controllable completion rate for March of 98.0% with an on-time arrival performance of 81.0%.

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March Results					Mar-06		Mar-05	  Change
	Revenue Passenger Miles (000)   609,632	   536,689	   13.59%
	Available Seat Miles (000)	  783,585	   740,775		5.78%
	Passengers Carried			1,314,528	 1,159,732	   13.35%
	Load Factor					   77.80%		72.45%		5.4 pts

	Year-to-date Results			  YTD 06	   YTD 05	  Change
	Revenue Passenger Miles (000)  1,594,337	1,416,051	   12.59%
	Available Seat Miles (000)	 2,178,412	1,982,124		9.90%
	Passengers Carried			 3,441,109	3,061,667	   12.39%
	Load Factor						73.19%	   71.44%		1.7 pts
 
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