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SkyWest, Inc.

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What Do They Do?

Operates scheduled regional passenger flights for major airlines, offers on-demand charter flights, and leases regional aircraft to other operators.

How Do They Make Money?

Major airline partners pay fixed fees for departures and flight time, monthly aircraft payments and performance incentives; they also pay or reimburse certain operating costs. On prorate routes, SkyWest shares ticket fares with its airline partners, while charter customers pay a negotiated fare when a flight is completed.

FY2025 revenue by product or service revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Flying agreements
96%
FY2022: 97%
Lease, airport services and other
4.3%
FY2022: 3.5%

Who Are Their Customers?

United, Delta, American and Alaska contract directly for regional flying; they handle passenger booking and ticketing. Charter customers arrange on-demand flights, and third parties lease aircraft.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 11 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2025 and turned 22 cents into free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2025
15% of revenue
▲ +25% vs FY2024 ($494.7M, 14%)
Net income, FY2025
11% of revenue
▲ +33% vs FY2024 ($323M, 9%)
Free cash flow, FY2025
22% of revenue
▲ +40% vs FY2024 ($647.6M, 18%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report
Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +7%
vs $1B in Q2 FY2025
Net income
▼ −16%
vs $120.3M in Q2 FY2025
Flying agreements share of revenue vs 95.4% in Q2 FY2025

Growing. Revenue grew 50% in 4 years, from $2.7B in FY2021 to $4.1B in FY2025, about 11% a year.

Added charter service The older description centers on scheduled passenger service under code-share arrangements; the latest also describes on-demand charter flights through a separate subsidiary.

Revenue over time
Flying agreements Lease, airport services and other
$5B$2.5B$0

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with CommuteAir, Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Horizon, GoJet, and Republic

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