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Old 02-23-2013 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by meyers9163
159 Crj200s by Skywest alone seems like hundreds..... Especially when its nearl half of your fleet...... Especially when DAL is involved.....
LOL, they do make up about half our fleet but we did purchase 100 MRJs. Of our 159 CR2's only about 25% of those ships are on the DAL side with the rest split between US, AA and UAL, UAL having the most. As Trip7 mentioned DAL's already met their contractual fleet numbers and seem to be pretty happy at the moment. Any more cuts to our fleet will come from the UAL side but even though our CR2 fleet will shrink our CR7/CR9 fleet will grow. There are other benefits for UAL and DAL to retain SkyWest that others seem to not be willing to provide. We provide A LOT of free feed (at risk flying) for both UAL and DAL. Those numbers are calculated in when retaining contracts but don’t help us much when bidding on new RFPs. I’ll have to look but I think we do close to 10,000 block hours/month of at risk flying. I’ll search and post the exact numbers, unless one of my other SkyWest brethren posts it first.

If you want a staggering number XJT has over 350 CR2/E135/E145s with only about 100 flying for DAL, the rest are with UAL!!! “Knock, knock its Count Chocula calling.....”

As a hole the code-feed industry will shrink. My prediction is the regional industry will be half its size today by 2020, that’s good for all of us.
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