SkyWest News

[Atccfi]

How do hiring pools work? Are you place into the pool and once hiring resumes you are called? Do they pick you out at random or is it in order of when you were "put in it"? Do they go through it and pick out the most qualified pilots? THX.

 

[jetpig32]

Bombardier Concludes 22 Aircraft Deal with SkyWest
Toronto, October 11, 2005
Represents conversion of 18 existing CRJ200 orders plus four additional firm orders.

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that SkyWest Inc. of St. George, Utah has concluded a purchase agreement for 22 Bombardier CRJ700 regional jets for its Delta Connection operation. The transaction includes conversion rights to other Bombardier CRJ aircraft. In addition, the 80 options for CRJ700 aircraft previously announced were reaffirmed as part of this agreement.

The revised contract is valued at approximately $798 million US. If all options are exercised, the entire order could be worth $ 3.7 billion US.

This transaction converts the 18 Delta Air Lines CRJ200 aircraft on backlog assumed by SkyWest as part of their recent acquisition of Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) and includes four incremental orders. SkyWest also retains 15 CRJ700 firm orders on Bombardier's backlog from a previous transaction.

"With our recent purchase of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, we agreed to add 22 regional jets to the Delta Connection route network," said Jerry Atkin, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, SkyWest Inc. "The CRJ700 continues to meet our growth requirements because of the benefit of commonality with existing CRJ fleets at SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines."

"We are very proud of our long partnership with SkyWest," said Steven Ridolfi, President, Bombardier Regional Aircraft. "We appreciate this endorsement of the CRJ Series and the CRJ700 as the regional jet of choice for both SkyWest and Delta Connection in order to meet their future system and market requirements. The CRJ700 aircraft's low operating costs represent a real benefit to operators in today's challenging market."

The current combined fleets of SkyWest Inc. owned airlines include 229 CRJ200 and 72 CRJ700 aircraft.

The Bombardier CRJ Series firm order book now stands at 1,440 with 1,294 delivered as of August 31, 2005.

 

[Bluto]

So really it's only 4 new aircraft, on top of previous orders. Is that how you guys are reading this?

 

[amcnd]

No.. The 18 CRJ200 ASA had are now 22 CRJ700 plus the 15 United aircraft + a new order for 80 options on the CRJ700. The tricky thing is? SkyWest INC. these could go to ASA or SkyWest! Whipsaw?

 

[IFlyFL410]

I definately smell a Whipsaw coming on this one.

 

[Tim47SIP]

Liers figure and figures lie!

This transaction converts the 18 Delta Air Lines CRJ200 aircraft on backlog assumed by SkyWest as part of their recent acquisition of Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) and includes four incremental orders. SkyWest also retains 15 CRJ700 firm orders on Bombardier's backlog from a previous transaction.


Well hopefully the aircraft go where they were supposed to go. 15 to Sky and 18 to ASA.

"With our recent purchase of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, we agreed to add 22 regional jets to the Delta Connection route network,"

Hopefully the 22 is in addition to the above aircraft. This would be good news for both companies. If not, that would mean 4 more are on the books.

 

[superjet]

Good things ahead!!

I think the fact that skw has put new training on hold til 06 is so they can see what DAL wants to do. As with UAL the DAL BK will ultimately boost skw and asa flying by summer 06. I hate to say it but DAL and UAL problems are good for increased a/c and flying for asa and skw. Ultimately this is the deal like it or not!!!

 

[=w=]

Right, four more are on the books. Who knows where they will go. Those 18 were part of the CRJ's which were supposed to come to ASA before we got bought out. They were supposed to be 200's and are now 700's. I also believe Atkin said ASA is getting 6 new CRJ200's next year (ones that couldnt be converted to 700's). ASA is ramping up their hiring again while SKYW is slowing theirs... pretty clear where the airplanes are going.

 

[E120ASA]

Heard from a CP. on Sunday that Comair is going to have more problems and CHQ is going to lose allot of Delta flying in December. CHQ 25% E145 and 20% other flying. That is what he told us so take it for what it is worth. All I know is that with Delta's BK and the award for Skywest from the court, SKY and ASA are not allowed to lose any flying or big D will not get their cash. SKYWEST, YOU DID A GREAT JOB......

 

[IFlyFL410]

very interesting.....was that an ATL CP or SLC?

 

[viper548]

Heard from a CP. on Sunday that Comair is going to have more problems and CHQ is going to lose allot of Delta flying in December. CHQ 25% E145 and 20% other flying. That is what he told us so take it for what it is worth. All I know is that with Delta's BK and the award for Skywest from the court, SKY and ASA are not allowed to lose any flying or big D will not get their cash. SKYWEST, YOU DID A GREAT JOB......

Jerry's been running the place for 30+ years and is very good at what he does.

 

[SGUIKE]

Jerry's been running the place for 30+ years and is very good at what he does.

Aint that the truth!

 

[Tim47SIP]

Dont stop now!

Jerry's been running the place for 30+ years and is very good at what he does.

If he could just fix screw scheduling, we would have some very happy campers!
:beer:

 

[PBRstreetgang]

He hasn't been formally offered the job yet, but he's been hired via an inside source.

Oh really,
Whats his DOH, employee number. He has been placed onto a eligible list, you sound ignorant whe you say you are hired without a DOH or employee number.
In an industry where senority is paramount falsely claiming to be employed while still working at Burger King is misleading.
PBR

 

[IFlyFL410]

Oh really,
Whats his DOH, employee number. He has been placed onto a eligible list, you sound ignorant whe you say you are hired without a DOH or employee number.
In an industry where senority is paramount falsely claiming to be employed while still working at Burger King is misleading.
PBR

It's possible, though rare. When I interviewed here at ASA a few years ago, the intern doing all the assisting was a former student of mine. I called him up a the following week and he told me I had been hired. Just hadn't recieved the offical call from ASA to comfirm it.

 

[Jon Rivoli]

Here's the truth about those 22 700's. Right now nobody, not Jerry Atkin, Brad Holt, Ron Reber, Steve Hart or anyone knows where those airplanes will end up, because Delta doesn't know where they will want them yet. We already have the entire CR700 production capacity scheduled for delivery through February which means the soonest any of these planes will go anywhere is March, five months from now and I seriously doubt Delta even knows its plans that far out. Take a deap breath..., hold it..., now let it out. Alot can and will happen in the next five months, don't give yourself a stroke trying to figure it out.

 

[No Delay]

Here's the truth about those 22 700's. Right now nobody, not Jerry Atkin, Brad Holt, Ron Reber, Steve Hart or anyone knows where those airplanes will end up, because Delta doesn't know where they will want them yet. We already have the entire CR700 production capacity scheduled for delivery through February which means the soonest any of these planes will go anywhere is March, five months from now and I seriously doubt Delta even knows its plans that far out. Take a deap breath..., hold it..., now let it out. Alot can and will happen in the next five months, don't give yourself a stroke trying to figure it out.

Very true! However, you don't just order 22 airplanes for no reason and no plan on what you want to do with them.

BK would have allowed DAL to cancel those orders. I beleive DAL has planned this BK out in detail...I don't think they are telling anyone...but they know!

 

["GO AROUND"]

Off on another tangent, has anyone heard if Delta is going ahead with the C concourse renovation or not? I was looking forward to the new place but I havn't seen much activity other than the Crown Room lately. Does SKW own the C gates or not, cause I'm guessing that SKW doesn't want to make the payments on the bonds for gates they don't own.

 

[IFlyFL410]

Off on another tangent, has anyone heard if Delta is going ahead with the C concourse renovation or not? I was looking forward to the new place but I havn't seen much activity other than the Crown Room lately. Does SKW own the C gates or not, cause I'm guessing that SKW doesn't want to make the payments on the bonds for gates they don't own.

What is the status of the Concourse C renovation?

As a result of the significant changes that have occurred at both Delta and ASA over the past month and the tremendous pressure the cost of jet fuel is now placing on the industry's ability to generate revenue, we have embarked on a thorough analysis of the project to identify any opportunities to reduce construction costs and further streamline the design. Our goal is to maintain the components of the project that are key to our ability to operate an efficient, quality and customer friendly operation while ensuring our costs remain at levels that will keep ASA competitive and in a position to continue to grow.

We hope to have preliminary result of the analysis ready for review by the Leadership team within the next week to ten days and will move forward with the next phase of the project as quickly as possible.

Answered by David Sellers, director - Properties and Facilities

 

[TEXAN AVIATOR]

Oh really,
Whats his DOH, employee number. He has been placed onto a eligible list, you sound ignorant whe you say you are hired without a DOH or employee number.
In an industry where senority is paramount falsely claiming to be employed while still working at Burger King is misleading.
PBR

I say again, he’s been hired and placed in the pool via an inside source; someone who’s very high on the hiring board and actually interviewed the guy. Oh, and get it right, its Mo’s BBQ.
TA