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Mesa Switches Regional Alliance From American to United
Mesa Airlines is ending its 30-year partnership with American Airlines and will redeploy its CRJ-900 fleet to fly regional routes for United Express.
American Eagle CRJ-900 in flight
Mesa Airlines' CRJ-900 fleet will cease operations on American Airlines' regional routes from April 3, 2023, as the carrier instead extends its partnership with United Airlines. (Photo: Mesa Airlines)

American Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have confirmed they are to suspend the partnership under which Mesa operated services for the carrier mainly out of Dallas/Fort Worth and Phoenix Sky Harbor airports. In a statement issued on December 19, Mesa confirmed that it will cease operations for American on April 3 as it transitions to an expanded partnership with United Airlines.

Under the new five-year agreement with United, Mesa will redeploy all of the CRJ-900 regional jets it flies for American to operate United Express routes. It may increase the number of these 76-seat aircraft available to United, dependent on the number of Embraer E-175 aircraft Mesa is operating on its own services.