Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
You only go with planes if they are sold directly to another airline. SkyWest Inc. Just has to sell the planes to a bank or Embraer and that separates us from the planes. Then SkyWest or any other airline just has to purchase the planes from the bank/Embraer. That is how Republic got the Q400s from Colgan.
The language is intended to take pilots when airplanes are transferred to skywest to do flying for UAL under the existing CPA. If the airplanes' leases expire and UAL decides to park them, then skywest can go ahead and operate them as they wish, if they wanted to. Skywest does NOT own any of those aircraft. They are owned by a bank and leased to UAL. RAH didn't have the language we have in our T&PA.