Mesa Air Group

Commercial aviation holding company 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. Subsidiaries Airlines Mesa Airlines, Inc. Former airlines and subsidiaries Air Midwest Freedom Airlines, Inc. CalPac (California Pacific) CCAir Desert Sun Airlines FloridaGulf Airlines go! Liberty Express Airlines Mountain West Airlines Skyway Airlines Superior Airlines WestAir Holdings, Inc. and WestAir Commuter Airlines Desert