Where Mesa Airlines flies

Mesa Airlines filed 81,282 departures in the twelve months through May 2026, led by Houston, across 15 of its busiest city pairs.

Filed traffic data

Departures

81,282

May 2026

Seats flown

5,991,882

Passengers

4.8M

Load factor

81.7%

RPM ÷ ASM

Busiest Mesa Airlines airports

Where Mesa Airlines operates the most departures — its hubs and focus cities.

  • IAH

    Houston

    32,254 departures · 2,377,600 seats flown

    39.7%

    Share

  • IAD

    Dulles

    8,311 departures · 612,724 seats flown

    10.2%

    Share

  • SAV

    Savannah

    1,886 departures · 137,612 seats flown

    2.3%

    Share

  • MCI

    Kansas City

    1,779 departures · 132,630 seats flown

    2.2%

    Share

  • SDF

    Louisville

    1,757 departures · 129,062 seats flown

    2.2%

    Share

  • ELP

    El Paso

    1,727 departures · 127,376 seats flown

    2.1%

    Share

  • DTW

    Detroit

    1,391 departures · 102,056 seats flown

    1.7%

    Share

  • MAF

    Midland

    1,334 departures · 98,156 seats flown

    1.6%

    Share

Busiest Mesa Airlines routes

The city pairs Mesa Airlines flies most, ranked by filed departures.

  • ELPIAH

    3,447 departures · 210,086 passengers

    82.7%

    Load

  • IAHMAF

    2,666 departures · 149,217 passengers

    76.1%

    Load

  • IAHMCI

    2,182 departures · 134,886 passengers

    83.1%

    Load

  • IAHSDF

    2,091 departures · 119,510 passengers

    77.8%

    Load

  • IAHMTY

    2,076 departures · 117,204 passengers

    75.1%

    Load

  • IAHOKC

    1,967 departures · 113,750 passengers

    79.0%

    Load

  • IADSAV

    1,950 departures · 111,592 passengers

    78.5%

    Load

  • IAHSAV

    1,810 departures · 106,022 passengers

    80.3%

    Load

  • BHMIAH

    1,716 departures · 94,828 passengers

    75.5%

    Load

  • IAHXNA

    1,693 departures · 100,967 passengers

    80.6%

    Load

  • ABQIAH

    1,596 departures · 96,333 passengers

    81.6%

    Load

  • IAHIND

    1,548 departures · 94,349 passengers

    83.2%

    Load

  • IAHSTL

    1,479 departures · 90,660 passengers

    84.2%

    Load

  • DTWIAD

    1,415 departures · 80,268 passengers

    77.5%

    Load

  • IADSDF

    1,411 departures · 80,227 passengers

    77.4%

    Load

What Mesa Airlines flies

Aircraft types by share of departures — what actually operated, not fleet count.

Monthly Mesa Airlines capacity

Monthly Mesa Airlines departures, trailing 12 months through May 2026. Bars scale to the busiest month.

  • June 2025

    7,364 departures · 457,744 passengers

    85.2%

    Load

  • July 2025

    7,415 departures · 466,086 passengers

    86.2%

    Load

  • August 2025

    7,219 departures · 432,088 passengers

    82.5%

    Load

  • September 2025

    7,014 departures · 417,971 passengers

    81.8%

    Load

  • October 2025

    7,224 departures · 432,867 passengers

    82.5%

    Load

  • November 2025

    6,580 departures · 360,576 passengers

    75.5%

    Load

  • December 2025

    6,897 departures · 411,654 passengers

    81.7%

    Load

  • January 2026

    6,213 departures · 355,749 passengers

    78.5%

    Load

  • February 2026

    5,643 departures · 333,022 passengers

    81.8%

    Load

  • March 2026

    6,357 departures · 369,985 passengers

    81.2%

    Load

  • April 2026

    6,681 departures · 388,740 passengers

    80.8%

    Load

  • May 2026

    6,675 departures · 394,905 passengers

    82.0%

    Load

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Data through May 2026.