Biography


Senior Vice President, Flight Operations
Mesa Airlines, Inc.

Brad Holt joined Mesa Air Group as Senior Vice President of Flight Operations in October 2019. He has been in the airline industry for over 30 years and is also a pilot with more than 16,000 flight hours in both airplanes and helicopters.

Prior to Mesa, Brad spent eight years as President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. When Atlantic Southeast merged with ExpressJet in 2010, Holt led the integration of the two companies and remained President and COO of ExpressJet until 2015.

He began his career as a pilot for SkyWest Airlines before becoming its Vice President of Flight Operations, a position he held from 1992 until 2008.