30-435: CRJ may refer to: Bombardier CRJ (Canadair Regional Jet), a family of Canadian commercial jet aircraft CRJ100/200/440 , 50 seats CRJ700/900/1000 , 70–100 seats Air Cruzal , Angola ( ICAO airline designator CRJ) Carly Rae Jepsen , a Canadian pop singer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
60-405: A 25% ownership stake of Contour Airlines to gain access to its infrastructure, personnel, and operational expertise as it launches its own Part 135 operation. SkyWest also plans to supply Contour with CRJ200 aircraft and partner with the airline to both recruit young pilots and provide opportunities to pilots who would otherwise need to retire due to age. In March 2024, SkyWest Airlines signed
90-708: A 70-seat configuration. The Embraer 175SC is built on the same airframe as other Embraer 175 aircraft and can be retrofitted to 76 seats in the future. The agreement with Alaska includes 10 Embraer 175 aircraft which will be configured with 76 seats, similar to aircraft SkyWest has previously placed into service with Alaska. Expected delivery dates of the 25 aircraft run from March 2018 through the end of 2018. On December 18, 2018, SkyWest, Inc., announced that it would sell ExpressJet Airlines to another airline holding company with ties to United Airlines, ExpressJet's sole client. The $ 70 million sale closed on January 23, 2019. In early 2024, regional carrier SkyWest Airlines purchased
120-488: A codesharing agreement with US Airways to operate CRJ200 aircraft from US Airways' hub in Phoenix, Arizona . On August 4, 2010, SkyWest, Inc., announced that it planned to acquire ExpressJet and merge it with SkyWest subsidiary Atlantic Southeast Airlines in a deal reported to have a value of $ 133 million. The purchase aligned the largest commuter operations of United Airlines and Continental Airlines , who were in
150-485: A deal with United Airlines to operate an additional 20 Embraer 175 aircraft for United Express. Unlike other aircraft, these are financed by United Airlines, not SkyWest. SkyWest is owned by SkyWest, Inc. , an airline holding company . SkyWest also provides contract ground handling services at airports across the United States. The vast majority of SkyWest's contracts are fixed-fee, with partner airlines paying
180-501: A historic interest in the CRJ programme, having sounded out risk-sharing options with Bombardier, and were at one point expected to take a stake in its SpaceJet venture during the 1990s. Bombardier ceased new sales and announced that production of the CRJ would continue at Mirabel until the current order backlog was complete. The deal was to include the type certificate for the CRJ series; Bombardier worked with Transport Canada to separate
210-646: A merger process, and was approved on September 13, 2010, by the Federal Trade Commission. In May 2011, SkyWest replaced Horizon Air on six routes on the West Coast being operated for Alaska Airlines . The flights were based out of Seattle and Portland and flew to several California cities, including Fresno , Burbank , Santa Barbara and Ontario . Horizon Air had been operating these routes with Bombardier CRJ700 aircraft however Horizon retired this aircraft from its fleet. Alaska Airlines had
240-593: A set amount for each flight operated, regardless of the number of passengers carried. The remaining 7% of flights are operated under a pro-rate contract, with SkyWest assuming all costs, setting fares, retaining all revenue from non-connecting passengers, and splitting the fares of connecting passengers on a pro-rated basis with the partner airline. SkyWest currently operates on a pro-rate basis on 68 routes across 10 hubs through agreements with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines. As of early 2021, SkyWest operates in 50 smaller cities that are subsidized under
270-595: A similar agreement with PenAir for Alaskan flights and Horizon Air for flights in the lower 48 . On November 15, 2012, SkyWest began a capacity purchase agreement with American Airlines for 12 Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft operating as American Eagle from American's hub in Los Angeles, California . This codeshare agreement with American was greatly expanded over the next several years to include destinations from American's hubs at Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Phoenix. Larger CRJ700/900 aircraft were introduced to
300-472: A steady expansion across the western U.S. It became the eleventh largest regional carrier in 1984 when it acquired Sun Aire Lines of Palm Springs, California , and had its initial public offering in 1986. In early 1986, SkyWest began codesharing as Western Express, a feeder service for Western Airlines at its Salt Lake City hub and other mainline Western destinations utilizing Embraer EMB 120 and Fairchild Metroliner turboprop aircraft. Following
330-572: Is a family of regional jets introduced in 1991 by Bombardier Aerospace . The CRJ was manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace with the manufacturing of the first CRJ generation, the CRJ100/200 starting in 1991 and the second CRJ generation, the CRJ700 series starting in 1999. The CRJ programme was acquired by Japanese corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI RJ Aviation Group) in a deal that closed 1 June 2020. Bombardier subsequently completed
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#1732776031924360-458: Is an American regional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah . SkyWest operates and maintains aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by four partner mainline airlines. The company is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle ), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection ), and United Airlines (as United Express ). In all, it
390-564: Is the largest regional airline in North America when measured by fleet size, number of passengers carried, and number of destinations served. SkyWest operates from 258 cities in the United States , Canada and Mexico with an extensive network of routes largely set up to connect passengers between smaller airports and the large hubs of its partner airlines. In total, SkyWest carried 38.6 million passengers in 2023. In 2023,
420-452: The CRJ550 , a variant of the CRJ700 limited to 50 passenger seats, similar to the nominal seating capacity of the 100/200 models. Restarting production would involve building a new plant, as the former plant is now making Airbus A220s , and taking the tooling out of storage. However, as of March 2024 , Mitsubishi has not pursued a restart. SkyWest Airlines SkyWest Airlines
450-546: The American Eagle system in 2016, and the smaller CRJ200s were discontinued in 2020. Embraer 175 aircraft joined the American Eagle system in late 2021. On September 6, 2017, SkyWest Airlines reported that it has entered into aircraft purchase agreements and capacity purchase agreements to acquire and fly 15 new aircraft with Delta Air Lines and 10 new aircraft with Alaska Airlines . Of the 25 aircraft, 15 Embraer 175SC aircraft will fly under an agreement with Delta in
480-625: The CRJ certificate from that of the Challenger . Closure of the deal was confirmed on 1 June 2020, with Bombardier's service and support activities transferred to a new Montreal-based company, MHI RJ Aviation Group. MHI RJ has not renamed the aircraft, and its website referred simply to the CRJ Series . The final Bombardier CRJ to be produced, a CRJ900, finished production and was delivered to SkyWest Airlines on 28 February 2021. In 2021, Mitsubishi investigated restarting production on
510-545: The CRJ200 regional jet. According to the airline's website, at its inception SkyWest was operating all flights in the early 1970s with small propeller-driven, piston-engine aircraft, including: In October 2023, SkyWest was sued by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA), who alleged that the company illegally fired two flight attendants as retaliation for engaging in protected union organizing activities and that
540-608: The SkyWest Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft, categorized by seating capacity: Note: the above chart only shows aircraft in scheduled service. It does not include aircraft owned by SkyWest but that are: leased to other operators, removed from service, transitioning between agreements with partners, used as spares, parked, or in the process of being parted out. SkyWest previously operated Embraer EMB 120 turboprop aircraft until 2015. The airline also operated Fairchild Metroliner turboprops. In 1984, SkyWest
570-513: The accounts of its parent company, SkyWest, Inc. Figures that are available for SkyWest Airlines alone (referred to as 'SkyWest Airlines segment' data in the Group accounts), are shown below (as at year ending December 31): Hubs Crew bases Maintenance bases As of June 2024 , SkyWest flies to 258 destinations throughout North America across 45 states and Washington D.C., five Canadian provinces and 13 Mexican cities. SkyWest has
600-720: The acquisition and merger of Western by Delta Air Lines in 1987, SkyWest then became a Delta Connection air carrier with codeshare service being flown on behalf of Delta to destinations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. From 1995 through 1997, SkyWest operated codeshare service for Continental Airlines as Continental Connection on flights out of Los Angeles that were also operated as Delta Connection. In 1997, SkyWest began operating as United Express in addition to Delta Connection on flights out of United Airlines hubs at SFO , LAX and DEN . SkyWest became United's largest United Express operation by
630-531: The assembly of the order backlog on behalf of Mitsubishi. Bombardier claims it is the most successful family of regional jets in the world. Production ended in December 2020 after 1,945 were built. The family consists of the following aircraft generations and models/derivatives: As of November 2018 , following Bombardier's decisions to sell the CSeries to Airbus and the Q Series to De Havilland Canada ,
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#1732776031924660-476: The company operated an average of 1,850 flights per day, of which approximately 740 (40%) were United Express flights, 580 (30%) were Delta Connection flights, 340 (20%) were American Eagle flights, and 190 (10%) were Alaska Airlines flights. Frustrated by the limited extent of existing air service, Ralph Atkin , a St. George, Utah , lawyer, purchased Dixie Airlines on April 26, 1972, to shuttle businessmen to Salt Lake City . After early struggles, SkyWest began
690-413: The company was looking at "strategic options" to return the CRJ to profitability. Analysts suspected that it might decide to exit the commercial aircraft market altogether and refocus on business aircraft. That prediction came to pass on 25 June 2019, when a deal was announced to sell the CRJ programme to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , the parent company of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation . Mitsubishi had
720-657: The federal government's Essential Air Service program. 36 are served under the United Express brand and 14 under the Delta Connection brand. The state of Wyoming subsidizes service to four other airports in Wyoming and operates under the United Express brand. All subsidized routes are flown with Bombardier CRJ200 regional jets. Performance figures for SkyWest Airlines are fully incorporated into
750-464: The largest fleet of any regional airline in the United States. Since 2015, the airline has exclusively operated jet aircraft. Most SkyWest aircraft are painted in the livery of partner carriers, but SkyWest does have a small number of aircraft in its own livery that can be operated for any partner airline as needed. SkyWest is a major operator of the Bombardier CRJ family of regional jets, was
780-629: The late 1990s. Flights were initially operated with Embraer EMB 120s and Bombardier CRJ200 regional jets. CRJ700s were added in the early 2000s and the Embraer 175 were added in 2014. A partnership with Continental was revived in 2003 as Continental Connection out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston but was discontinued in June 2005. This operation used Embraer EMB 120s. On August 15, 2005, Delta sold Atlantic Southeast Airlines to
810-563: The launch customer for CRJ200, is largest operator of the CRJ200 and took delivery of the last CRJ ever built, a CRJ900. Like most regional airlines in the United States, SkyWest is subject to scope clause requirements of its mainline carrier partners and their pilot unions; those requirements limit the size of the aircraft flown by a regional airline, measured in seat capacity. This has created three subgroups of aircraft flown by SkyWest: aircraft with no more than 50 seats, no more than 70 seats, and no more than 76 seats. As of May 2024 ,
840-554: The newly incorporated SkyWest, Inc., for $ 425 million in cash. The acquisition was completed on September 8, 2005. In 2007, SkyWest began code sharing with Midwest Airlines at its hubs in Milwaukee and Kansas City using Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft. In 2010 the codeshare with Midwest had ended, and a new codeshare agreement began with AirTran Airways at Milwaukee. On September 6, 2011, AirTran Airways ended its codesharing and partnership with SkyWest. Shortly after, SkyWest began
870-523: The title CRJ . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CRJ&oldid=1172299518 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bombardier CRJ The Bombardier CRJ / Mitsubishi CRJ or CRJ Series (for Canadair Regional Jet )
900-456: Was operating the largest Metro propjet fleet in the world with 26 aircraft, and by 1991 the Metro fleet had grown to 35 aircraft with 15 Brasilia propjets also being operated. By 1994, the first jet, a Bombardier CRJ100 , was added to the fleet and by 1996 all of the Metro propjets had been retired as they were progressively replaced with Brasilia aircraft. SkyWest was also the launch customer for
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