Alittle education of how Skywest, Inc is structured since some of you think ASA or Skywest can just go buy another company and merge them or run them as separate.
There are only 2 employees of Skywest, Inc. They are Jerry Atkin, Chairman and CEO and Brad Rich, VP and CFO. Jerry's and Brad's compensation is payed out from Skywest and ASA with Skywest paying 60% and ASA at 40%. I have no idea why it's 60/40 and not 50/50 but it's the way it is. Skywest, Inc uses ASA and Skywest personel to do the books, recordkeeping, accounting and whatever is required to run a company. Each individual company is free to negotiate with it's existing codeshare partners for new flying and compensation within guidelines Jerry has set. All new codeshares, ventures and purchases for ASA/Skywest and Skywest, Inc are pursued by Jerry and Brad. If Jerry thinks it's in the best interest of "Inc." then flying will go to ASA or Skywest or even a new separate company. ASA and Skywest don't have the ability to buy anyone even though it may be their money Jerry and Brad is using.