Mesa Air Group, Inc. Reports December Traffic Including go! Hawai'i's Low Fare
Airline
PHOENIX, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc.
(Nasdaq: MESA) reported its preliminary traffic figures for December 2007.
Year-over-year available seat miles decreased 12.56% in December 2007 to
694,401 compared to 794,105 in December 2006. Revenue passenger miles
decreased 15.95% from 576,903 in 2006 to 484,861 in 2007. Passenger
enplanements decreased 15.54% from 1,333,304 in December 2006 to 1,126,064 in
December 2007. Year-over-year load factor for the month of December was 69.82%
in 2007 compared to 72.65% in 2006.
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go!'s preliminary traffic figures for December 2007 indicate that its
operations generated 11.41 million available seat miles, 7.51 million revenue
passenger miles and 51,419 passenger enplanements, resulting in a load factor
of 65.79%, compared to 66.01% in 2006. Hawai'i's low fare leader also recorded
an on-time performance rate of 87.90% and an overall completion factor of
98.90% for December 2007.
December Results Dec-07 Dec-06 Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 484,861 576,903 -15.95%
Available Seat Miles (000) 694,401 794,105 -12.56%
Passengers Carried 1,126,064 1,333,304 -15.54%
Load Factor 69.82% 72.65% (2.8) pts
Year-to-date Results YTD 07 YTD 06 Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 6,801,704 6,892,743 -1.32%
Available Seat Miles (000) 8,981,612 9,156,271 -1.91%
Passengers Carried 16,061,844 15,357,840 4.58%
Load Factor 75.73% 75.28% 0.5 pts
"This month's traffic numbers were impacted by a number of issues most
notably a 50% year over year reduction of flying at Air Midwest, the
elimination of Dash 8 flying in our Delta Connection operation, the reduction
of 5 CRJ200s from our USAIR Express operations and the reduction of nine 50
seat aircraft from our United Express operations. We believe the reduction of
turbo prop and 50 passenger regional jet flying will enhance profitability
long term as these aircraft are replaced with larger, more efficient regional
jets. In addition, the impact of severe winter weather presented some
operational challenges throughout the month, especially for our operations in
the mid west and north east of the country," said Mesa Chairman and CEO,
Jonathan Ornstein. "Despite the weather and peak travel season demands, our
operating performance has remained strong in December and that's a credit to
our people all around the country who continue to do a truly outstanding job.
I wish to thank all of our employees, as well as our airline partners for
their on-going support," Mr. Ornstein added.
Mesa currently operates 183 aircraft with over 1,100 daily system
departures to 138 cities, 40 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the
Bahamas 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.
SOURCE Mesa Air Group, Inc.
Paul Skellon, Vice President Corporate Communications of Mesa Air Group, Inc.,
+1-602-685-4162, paul.skellon@mesa-air.com, http://www.mesa-air.com
