Originally Posted by
DashAviator
Air Group's preferred business model is to whipsaw Horizon against SkyWest, to keep costs low for their regional feed. Could Alaska sell Horizon to SkyWest? Yes... but this is unlikely to happen as long as we've got $1B worth of Q400's on the property. Once Horizon becomes an all-jet regional (or mostly all-jet), a sale becomes more likely.
I'm pretty sure SKW wouldn't take Q's if AAG gave them away. They considered and rejected that airframe back in the day.
They have also been burned by purchasing established regionals, they are 0 for 2 on that. I seriously doubt they'd touch QX unless they had some amazingly good terms... terms you guys probably shouldn't give them.