Mesa Airlines (YV, Phoenix Sky Harbor) has signed an agreement with United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) to add fifteen E175s to Mesa’s United Express fleet. The move will bring the total number of Embraer aircraft Mesa operates for United Express to forty-five.

“We are very pleased to expand our relationship with United with the addition of these fifteen new Embraer EMB-175 jets,” Mesa Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein said. “Mesa has proven itself as a quality operator of this aircraft type in terms of customer satisfaction and is competitive in terms of cost efficiency."

In addition to the EMB-175s, Mesa operates twenty CRJ700s under the United Express brand.