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The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 4200 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.
I guess someone hid the fact that Freedom Airlines is a Mesa Company when ATW magazine was looking for a Regional of the Year (2005).
That's why I chuckle a little bit every time I see one of those stupid "Regional Airline of the Year" stickers on the side of a Shupublicah airplane. It's like the Grammy of industry awards. They'll give those things to anyone