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go! Hawai'i's Low Fare Airline Reports August 2008 Traffic
HONOLULU, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- go! today reported preliminary
traffic figures for August 2008 indicating that its operations generated 15.4
million available seat miles, 10.9 million revenue passenger miles and 75,037
passengers, compared with 65,736 in August 2007. Load factor for August 2008
was 70.66%, compared to 71.49% for the same period in 2007. Hawai'i's low fare
airline recorded an on-time performance rate of 82%.
In a recent survey completed by more than 4700 go! customers, 89.3% said
they thought our iflygo.com website was cool or very cool and 84.2% think our
Customer Care and Reservations teams are doing a great job. 77.4% told us they
appreciate the ease, simplicity and short walk from the carpark to our
Honolulu terminal, and an overwhelming 89.4% of go! customers rated our
friendly flight attendants as great or excellent. Not surprisingly, the
highest score of over 90% was reserved for our great low fares, with customers
saying they believed fares would skyrocket if go! left the Hawai'i market.
That's why go! is here to stay.
As part of go!'s ongoing support and commitment for communities throughout
Hawai'i, go! will donate $1.00 to Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Hawai'i
for roundtrips purchased now through September 15, 2008 for travel during the
same period. The association helps people with various neuromuscular diseases
through research programs, services and education, and go! is proud to give
its support for the second successive year.
"The overwhelming support from our customers for go!'s low fares and
simplified, friendly service is very encouraging and a real tribute to the
spirit, hard work and dedication of our people," said Mesa Air Group Chairman
and CEO. "We are also encouraged by a softening of fuel prices in recent weeks
and remain cautiously optimistic this downward trend will continue," Mr.
Ornstein added.
Mesa currently operates 159 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures
to 125 cities, 38 states, theDistrict of Columbia,Canada, theBahamas 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
linksHonolulu to the neighbor island airports ofHilo,Kahului, Kona and
Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley inNew 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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