PHOENIX, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mesa Air Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:
MESA) (the "Company") today announced the appointment of Paul Foley as
Chief Operating Officer Mesa Air Group. Michael Lotz remains President and
Chief Financial Officer Mesa Air Group.
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"Paul brings to Mesa a wealth of operational and leadership experience
from his years as CEO of Mesaba Holdings, the parent company of Mesaba
Airlines," said Jonathan Ornstein, Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO. "I have
known Paul for many years and am confident he is the ideal person to bring
the needed skills, leadership and oversight to our operations at a time
when Mike Lotz must remain focused on the restructuring of our business,"
added Ornstein.
Since September 1999, Paul was President and Chief Executive Officer of
MAIR Holdings Inc., a member of its Board of Directors and on the Executive
and Safety Committees. From September 1999 until October 2002 Paul also
served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mesaba Aviation.
Paul was previously employed as Vice President Operations at Atlas Air,
a global cargo operator of 747 aircraft. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice
President Operations at LSG/Sky Chefs. He also served as President of
Continental Airlines' Chelsea Catering Corporation.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and an
MBA from the Edwin L. Cox Graduate School of Business at Southern Methodist
University, Dallas.
Mesa currently operates 159 aircraft with over 800 daily system
departures to 126 cities, 38 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 and was
awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in
1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and
Regional Aviation Partners.
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