PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)—September 13, 2013 - Mesa Air Group, Inc. is pleased to announce a new agreement with United Airlines that extends the term of its existing fleet of 20 Bombardier CRJ 700 aircraft to 2019 and adds 30 new United owned Embraer 175 aircraft.

Under the terms of this agreement Mesa will place the new Embraer 175 jets into service over the next two years. Mesa will hire approximately 350 pilots, 300 flight attendants and 200 maintenance and other support personnel to support the additional aircraft.

“This is truly a great day for Mesa. We will continue to work hard to provide the best possible service to United’s customers,” said Jonathan Ornstein Mesa’s Chairman and CEO. “Mesa began operating under United Express banner in 1992 and we are delighted to have this opportunity to expand our longstanding partnership. Our first codeshare agreement with United transformed our company and I am sure this one will do the same. We are also very pleased to rejoin the Embraer family of operators and look forward to working with our many friends there as well.”

Paul Foley Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer said, “It has always been our goal to exceed the expectations of both our partners and customers. We believe this contract is evidence that our operational performance and industry leading cost structure has begun to pay big dividends for the company and our people. Based on data from the Department of Transportation, Mesa has been the number one performing regional airline for each of the last three years. We’d like to thank all of our people who have contributed to our success and enabled us to compete successfully for this new business.”

Mesa currently operates 71 aircraft with approximately 425 daily system departures to 82 cities, 32 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Mexico. Mesa operates as US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as go!. This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company was founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982.

Happy?

 

would be interesting to see the pay rate for this shiny new jet!

 

 

Same ******* different jet.

 

Good to here Mesa getting this jet. HA HA HA. Anyway are all these jets going to ORD and IAD?

 

Your battery is low.

 

Gonna be interesting to see how Mesa fills these slots with those pay rates. I'll be making more in my second year at TSA on a 50 seat jet than I would in my fourth year on a 175 at Mesa.

 

It matches the pay...

 

I made more second year than every FO at mesa... Yeah man, idk how 300 plus FOs will turn up as pretty much every other regional continues to hire

 

Guaranteed flows.