SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has placed a firm order with Embraer (EMB, São José dos Campos Professor Urbano Ernesto Stumpf) for seven E175 jets valued at USD301million based on 2014 list prices. The aircraft, which will be configured with 12 First and 64 Economy class seats, will be flown by Skywest Airlines under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International).
Deliveries are schedule to begin in the second semester of 2015 following which the aircraft will be used on Portland International to St. Louis Lambert International flights as well as on Seattle Tacoma International to Milwaukee General Mitchell and Oklahoma City Will Rogers World services.
"These aircraft are part of Skywest’s previous order for 100 (40 firm and 60 reconfirmable), EMB-175 current generation E-Jets – with an additional 100 options – placed in May 2013, taking the firm order number to a total of 47," the Brazilian manufacturer said in a statement.
Skywest Airlines operates a fleet of sixteen EMB-175 and thirty-nine E120 which it plans to retire next year. Its ExpressJet Airlines (Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) subsidiary operates 226 E145s and nine E135s. Skywest is also the launch customer for the upcoming EMB-175-E2 with firm orders for 100 airframes and options for an additional 100 more.
Skywest has CPAs with a number of US carriers including American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth), Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson), United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) and US Airways (Phoenix Sky Harbor).
