SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has ordered eight more E175s from Embraer (EMB, Sao Jose dos Campos) for use under its Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International).

The eight airframes, scheduled for delivery next year, are part of SkyWest’s previous order for 200 EMB-175s (forty firm, sixty reconfirmable with 100 options) placed in May 2013.

SkyWest will deploy its first EMB-175, N170SY (cn 170900483), to operate under the Alaska SkyWest banner on July 1.