Mesa Air Group adds new aircraft; extends contract with United Airlines

Mesa Air Group has added 20 new Embraer E175 LL aircraft to its United Express fleet. The aircraft will be owned and financed by Mesa and be covered under a 12-year capacity purchase agreement. The E175 LL features 70 seats in a three-class configuration. Deliveries are scheduled to begin May 2020 and expected to be completed by the end of 2020. The plan comes just days after Mesa said that under the recent amendment to its agreement with American Airlines, the company did not meet certain performance metrics.  This allowed American to remove two additional aircraft from the capacity purchase