UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

MESA AIR GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada		000-15495		85-0302351
(State or other jurisdiction		(Commission		(IRS Employer
of incorporation)		File Number)		Identification No.)

410 North 44th Street, Suite 100
Phoenix, Arizona, 85008
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (602) 685-4000

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Item 1.01     Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

     On September 11, 2007, Mesa Air Group, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that it has reached agreement with United Airlines, Inc. (“United”) to make amendments to their existing United Express code share agreement.

     The full text of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

     Under the amended code share agreement with United, the Company will replace eight 50 seat Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft with two 66 seat Bombardier CRJ-700 aircraft. The two CRJ-700s will be added to the existing code share agreement. The new aircraft will enter service in the spring of 2008 and have a 10 year term.

Item 9.01     Financial Statements and Exhibits

     (c)     Exhibits.

	Exhibit No.			Description
	99.1			Press release, dated September 11, 2007

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mesa and United Agree to Fleet Restructuring

PHOENIX, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESA) today announced an agreement with United Airlines to replace eight 50 seat Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft with two 66 seat Bombardier CRJ-700 aircraft. The two CRJ-700s will be added to Mesa’s existing contract. The aircraft will enter service in the spring of 2008 and have a 10 year term.

“We are delighted to add larger, longer term aircraft to our fleet with United,” said Mesa Chairman and CEO, Jonathan Ornstein. “We very much appreciate their confidence in Mesa and look forward to working with the United team.”

Once the aircraft enter service in 2008, Mesa will operate a total of 22 CRJ-700 aircraft for United Express. These two new CRJ-700 aircraft are in addition to a previously announced order for 10 CRJ-700’s which will progressively join the fleet beginning in 2008.

Mesa currently operates 185 aircraft with over 1,100 daily system departures to 184 cities, 45 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. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management’s beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected.

SOURCE Mesa Air Group, Inc.
09/11/2007
CONTACT: Tom Bacon, Vice President of Planning of Mesa Air Group, Inc.,
+1-602-685-3565
Web site: http://www.mesa-air.com
(MESA)