Mesa Air Group

Mesa Air Group, Inc.
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: MESA; Russell 2000 Index component
Industry	Aviation
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Key people	Jonathan G. Ornstein (chairman & CEO); Michael J. Lotz (president); Torque Zubeck (CFO); Bradford Rich (executive vice president & COO); Brian Gillman (executive vice president, general counsel and secretary);
Revenue	$1.4 billion USD (2007)
Owner	United Airlines Holdings (9.9%)
Number of employees	~3,600 (2022)
Website	mesa-air.com

Mesa Air Group, Inc. is a Nevada Corporation commercial aviation holding company with headquarters at 410 North 44th Street, Suite 700 in the Camelback East area of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The company operates one regional airline subsidiary: Mesa Airlines which operates as United Express and (until 2023) as American Eagle under contractual agreements with United Airlines and American Airlines respectively.

Mesa was founded on a mesa in Farmington, New Mexico in 1982 by Larry and Janie Risley, a husband and wife team that mortgaged their home to finance their dream to own an airline. Mesa moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona in 1998.

As of June 2022, Mesa operated 167 aircraft, with more than 457 daily departures to 120 cities throughout the U.S., District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, and Cuba.