Corporate headquarters

President

Founded

St. George,Ut

Russell "Chip" Childs, President and COO

1972; First day of operation: June 19, 1972

Hubs

Crew domiciles


Maintenance bases (includes line stations)

Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Portland, Salt Lake City and San Francisco

Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fresno, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Tucson

Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fresno, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Palm Springs, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Tucson

Cities currently served

Total: 163 (38 States, Washington D.C., 7 Canadian Provinces)
United: 137 Delta: 100 Airtran: 7 Shared: 78

Stations operated

SkyWest: 69

Employees

total: 10,856 (8,854 FTE's)

Average number of daily scheduled departures

Total: 1,840   United: 1,263   Delta: 544   AirTran: 33

LAX: 126   SFO: 134   PDX: 37   DEN: 235   ORD: 127   SLC: 216   MKE: 27

Passengers
carried in 2009

21.3 million passengers

Total revenue passenger miles flown in 2009

11.7 billion revenue passenger miles*

*A Revenue Passenger Mile is equal to one fare paying passenger flown one mile.

Total aircraft in operating fleet

294 (All numbers include deliveries and retirements this calendar month)

Average age of fleet:

CRJ = 6.7 years
Brasilia = 13 years
Combined = 7.7 years

Embraer aircraft:

48 Embraer 120 turboprops

Bombardier aircraft:

142 CRJ200 aircraft
83 CRJ700 aircraft
21 CRJ900 aircraft