common stock will be suspended at the opening of business on January 14, 2010
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)– On January 5, 2010, Mesa Air Group, Inc. (the €œCompany€) (Nasdaq: MESA) received a letter from The Nasdaq Stock Market (the €œExchange€) indicating the Staff€™s determination that the Company€™s securities will be delisted from the Exchange. This decision was reached by Nasdaq under Listing Rules 5101, 5110, 5110(b) and IM-5101-1 in view of the January 5, 2010 announcement by the Company of a voluntary filing by the Company for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The Company does not intend to take any further action to appeal the Exchange€™s decision. Accordingly, trading of the Company€™s common stock will be suspended at the opening of business on January 14, 2010, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (€œSEC€) which will remove the Company€™s common stock from listing and registration on the Exchange.
The Company€™s common stock will not be immediately eligible to trade on the OTC Bulletin Board or in the €œPink Sheets.€ The Company€™s common stock may become eligible if a market maker makes application to register in and quote such securities in accordance with SEC Rule 15c2-11 (a €œForm 211€), and such application is cleared. Only a market maker, not the Company, may file a Form 211.
Mesa currently operates 130 aircraft with approximately 700 daily system departures to 127 cities, 41 states, Canada, 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! Mokulele. 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 3,500 employees.
