Originally Posted by
rcfd13
The only major that Skywest (Inc.) does a huge percentage of regional flying for is Delta. That's probably part of the reason they wanted to buy PNCL and have given a lot of flying to Compass. 30 planes between AA/US is nothing.
Pinnacle was purchased because Delta had absolutely no way to cover the amount of flying they did had they closed up shop. With the purchase, Delta can oversee the parking of the -200. Also, Compass hardly has a lot of flying. They have 42 airplanes and have not grown and will not grow.
These routes that SkyWest will be flying for AA are some Envoy/Eagle routes and some Chautauqua. I believe EGF/CHQ both flew the ICT/MKE markets where as EGF flew YUL/CHO. It's directly related to the parking for the 140/145's by both Eagle and CHQ. OO is utilizing planes coming off contract with DL and will be operating these as pro-rate/at-risk flying.