News Release

Republic Airways Announces Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter 2009 Results

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2009-- Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET) announced today it will hold a conference call to discuss financial results for the third quarter of 2009. The conference call will be held Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. EST.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/Reuters and can be accessed at Republic Airways Holdings’ website at www.rjet.com. For those wishing to participate, please call 866-804-6925, and for international calls please dial 857-350-1671; the password is 76791934. To listen to a telephone replay of the webcast please call 888-286-8010 and use password 11240408. For international telephone replay, please call 617-801-6888 and use the same password. The replay will be available from Nov. 5, 2009 at 1 p.m. until Nov. 12, 2009.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson’s individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.

Republic Airways Holdings, based in Indianapolis, Indiana is an airline holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Lynx Aviation, Midwest Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, collectively “the airlines.” The airlines offer scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,800 flights daily to 126 cities in 46 states, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica under branded operations at Frontier and Midwest, and through fixed-fee airline services agreements with five major U.S. airlines. The fixed-fee flights are operated under an airline partner brand, such as AmericanConnection, Continental Express, Delta Connection, United Express, and US Airways Express. The airlines currently employ over 11,000 aviation professionals and operate 294 aircraft.

Source: Republic Airways Holdings Inc.

Republic Airways Holdings
Media Contact:
Carlo Bertolini, 317-484-6069
or
IR Contact:
Timothy Dooley, 317-487-4308

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Republic Airways Holdings's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.