Wayne C. Heller

The Group's principal activity is to provide regional scheduled passenger services. It is a holding company for Mesaba Aviation, Inc. It has an airlines services agreement with Northwest Airlines, Inc. With this agreement, the schedules are coordinated with those of Northwest to facilitate interline connections at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Airport and the Memphis International Airport. It provides its services under the name Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Airlink or Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Jet Airlink. It operated flights to 102 cities in United States and Canada from Northwest's hub airports.

Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of passenger airline services. It offers scheduled commercial passenger services through Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America subsidiaries. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Chautauqua Airlines, Inc. provides scheduled air passenger services connecting major airports mainly in the eastern half of the U.S. It maintains code-sharing partnerships with AMR's American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, UAL's United Airlines and U.S. Airways. The company was founded in 1973 by Joel Hall and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Mesaba Airlines, Inc. provides air transportation services. It operates a fleet of regional jet and jet-prop aircraft, consisting of the 34-passenger Saab SF340, the 50-passenger Bombardier CRJ200, and the 76-passenger Bombardier CRJ900 regional jet aircraft. The company serves more than 75 cities in the United States and Canada. Mesaba was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.