Mesa Airlines, Inc., is an American regional airline based in Phoenix, Arizona. It is an FAA Part 121–certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number MASA036A issued on June 29, 1979. It is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group and operates flights as United Express via respective code sharing agreements with United Airlines. It serves more than 180 markets in the Western Hemisphere. In a 1997 article from the Journal of Air Transportation, Mesa's safety record was noted as having the fewest incidents among domestic regional airlines at that time.[3]
Mesa filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2010, hoping to shed financial obligations for leases on airplanes it no longer needed and emerged from bankruptcy in March 2011. In November 2017, Mesa opened a new training center in Phoenix.[4] The 23,000-square-foot facility features a full-size CRJ-200 cabin trainer aircraft, 14 classrooms, and has the capacity to train 300 crew members at one time.
On December 17, 2022, Mesa announced a wind-down of its American Eagle flying by April 3, 2023. American Airlines said Mesa's reliability and financial difficulties were a cause for concern. Mesa reported that the contract with American had resulted in massive losses. On December 27, 2022, Mesa finalized an amendment and restatement of its capacity purchase agreement with United Airlines. Under the agreement, Mesa was to add up to 38 Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft, dependent on the number Embraer 175 aircraft Mesa was operating. Mesa was to begin flying CRJ-900s on behalf of United in March 2023 and utilize all of the crew and maintenance locations currently operated for American Airlines in Phoenix, Dallas, El Paso, and Louisville, as well as open a CRJ-900 crew base in Houston and a pilot base in Denver. As part of the final agreement, United would also pay Mesa increased block-hour rates to cover the incremental pilot wage increases instituted by Mesa in September 2022, to remain in effect through September 2025. United received a 10% equity position in Mesa and a seat on the Mesa board of directors.[5]
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