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Jerry Atkin

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Jerry C. Atkin
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBusiness executive, certified public accountant
CompanySkyWest, Inc.
TitleChief executive officer of SkyWest, Inc. (1975 to 2015); Board Chair (1991 to 2024)
SpouseCarolyn Jones Atkin (m. 1971; died 2024)
Children4

Jerry Clayton Atkin (born c. 1949) is an American airline executive and certified public accountant. He was chief executive officer of SkyWest, Inc., the regional airline holding company based in St. George, Utah, for 41 years, from 1975 until December 31, 2015, and chaired its board from 1991 until he retired on May 7, 2024.[1][2] A case study published by O.C. Tanner, SkyWest's employee recognition supplier, described him at his 40th anniversary as the longest-tenured chief executive in the airline industry.[3]

Atkin is a nephew of SkyWest's founder, the St. George lawyer J. Ralph Atkin.[4] He joined the company in July 1974, aged 25, as director of finance and as a board member. At the time the airline was heavily in debt and its owners had tried and failed to sell it. In 1975 he became president and chief executive. He led an informal restructuring in which creditors were paid in full over time, and the airline went on to report its first profit in 1976.[5][6][7]

Under Atkin, SkyWest went from a commuter carrier serving a handful of towns in southern Utah to a contract operator for several major airlines. It bought Sun Aire Lines of Palm Springs in 1984 and went public on NASDAQ in 1986. It became a Delta Connection carrier in 1987 and a United Express carrier in 1997. In September 2005 it bought Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) from Delta Air Lines, and in November 2010 it bought ExpressJet Holdings.[7][8][9] In 1994 the company had about 2,000 employees. By the time Atkin gave up the chief executive role it had nearly 20,000 employees, a fleet of 664 aircraft and more than 3,200 daily flights.[6][10]

Russell A. "Chip" Childs succeeded Atkin as chief executive on January 1, 2016, and Atkin stayed on as board chair. Under the company's governance guidelines, directors must offer to resign on reaching 75. Atkin made that offer, the board accepted it on March 22, 2024, and he left the board at the annual meeting on May 7, 2024. James L. Welch succeeded him as chair.[10][11] Outside the company, Atkin was a director of Zions Bancorporation from 1993 to July 2020 and served on the Utah State Board of Regents from 1999.[1][12]

Early life and education

The sources retrieved for this article say little about Atkin's childhood. He belongs to the Atkin family of St. George, Utah. His uncles J. Ralph Atkin and Sidney J. Atkin were brothers, and both served as directors and officers of the airline.[4] In an article marking the airline's 30th anniversary, Atkin listed his jobs before joining the airline as dishwasher, fry cook, business manager for the Biology Department at the University of Utah, and part-time computer operator.[13]

The same article says that when he joined the airline in 1974 he held a certified public accountant's licence and a Master of Business Administration degree, and was "fresh out of graduate school". The sources retrieved for this article do not name the institutions where he earned his degrees.[13] The company's proxy statements record that before joining the company he worked for a public accounting firm and that he is a certified public accountant.[5][14]

Career

Joining the family airline (1974)

The airline Atkin joined began in 1972. J. Ralph Atkin, a St. George attorney, and a few associates bought the airport lease and intrastate operating rights of the failed Dixie Airlines and started scheduled flights from St. George to Cedar City and Salt Lake City. The airline also flew charters, ran a flight school, seeded clouds and flew deportation charters for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.[7][13] By 1974 it was losing money and carried large debts. Jerry Atkin later recalled that the owners "tried to sell it for $25,000 because we couldn't see any way out, but nobody wanted it. Then we offered it to a guy for nothing, but he wouldn't take it."[6] He said the family stayed with it out of "pride, I guess", because most of the investment had come from the Atkins.[6]

Atkin joined the company in July 1974 as director of finance and was elected to the board the same month.[5] He later described the business as "just this little dinky company" and said he got involved because he "did have some training in an area they needed".[13] In his first year he handled accounting, ticket pricing and interline billing.[13]

President and chief executive (1975 to 1991)

In 1975, after one year with the company, Atkin became president and chief executive officer. The 30th-anniversary article says he was 26.[5][13] The company was reorganized in October 1975: Ralph Atkin became board chairman and vice-president of corporate development, Sidney Atkin vice-president of finance, and their older brother Lee C. Atkin secretary.[7] Atkin called the restructuring that followed "kind of a do-it-yourself Chapter 11". The company sold three aircraft, cut routes and staff, and paid its creditors $50 a month for the first year. "Nobody lost a dime; we paid it all back," he told the Deseret News in 1994.[6][7] A $15,000 state grant in 1975 also helped the company survive, and it made its first profit in 1976.[7]

As the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 pushed large carriers out of small western markets, Atkin's airline took over many of the routes they left, in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. In 1978 it became the third commuter airline in the United States to be certificated as an air carrier.[7] By the end of 1983 it had been profitable for eight straight years, served 17 locations in six states and employed about 250 people. At that point Atkin handed financial duties to a newly created financial vice-president and set up separate marketing and customer service departments.[7]

Atkin led the 1984 purchase of Sun Aire Lines, a Palm Springs commuter airline about twice the size of Atkin's company by passenger numbers, which made the combined company the eleventh-largest regional carrier in the United States (see Major deals).[7][13] The merger also created the holding company SkyWest, Inc.[7] In 1986 the company floated on NASDAQ under the symbol SKYW. According to the company history, Jerry and Ralph Atkin flew to New York to collect a cheque for almost $12 million, against less than $1 million raised privately since 1972.[7][13] In April 1987, after Delta Air Lines took over Western Airlines, whose code the airline had been flying under, it began operating as a Delta Connection carrier.[15]

The late 1980s were harder. The company lost $2.3 million in fiscal 1988 after expanding too quickly in California, and it cancelled some routes to concentrate on its core markets.[7] In 1987 one of the company's aircraft was involved in a midair collision with a private plane over a Salt Lake City suburb.[6]

Chairman, president and chief executive (1991 to 2011)

In 1991 Ralph Atkin retired as board chairman, and Jerry Atkin was elected chairman while keeping the roles of president and chief executive. He held both the chair and the chief executive post from then until January 2016.[5][2][7] In 1992 the company went through a reorganization that included layoffs. Atkin promised to refocus its strategy on profitability, and in fiscal 1993 it reported record passengers, revenue and net income.[6] Net income for fiscal 1993 was $6.7 million, up from $2 million the year before.[6]

On March 1, 1994, Atkin's airline put its first Canadair Regional Jet into service at Salt Lake City International Airport. The 50-seat aircraft cost about $18 million each, and the airline had ordered more.[6] The jets let it take over routes from Salt Lake City to five smaller cities that Delta had dropped.[7] Atkin later told Business & Commercial Aviation of the move to jets: "It is a good thing I did not know how big a task it was."[7] In 1994 he was also chairman of the Regional Airline Association, the industry trade group.[6]

The company signed a code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines in October 1995 and became a United Express carrier at Los Angeles in 1997, at San Francisco in June 1998, and in Portland and Seattle the same year.[15][16] By May 2001 the airline's traffic was split almost evenly between Delta and United: 53 percent under the Delta code and 47 percent under the United code. The company was flying more than 1,000 daily departures to 66 cities.[16] It sold its Scenic Airlines tour business in fiscal 1999 and its National Parks Transportation car rental business in fiscal 2001, leaving it focused on scheduled passenger flying.[16]

In September 2005 the company completed the purchase of Atlantic Southeast Airlines from Delta, and in November 2010 it completed the purchase of ExpressJet Holdings. Both deals are described under Major deals.[8][9] Atkin stepped down as president in 2011 but remained chairman and chief executive.[17]

Final years as chief executive (2011 to 2015)

In his last years as chief executive, Atkin was chairman and chief executive of SkyWest, Inc. and of its operating airlines. By 2015 those were SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines.[17] Childs, who had joined the company in 2001 as a controller, became president of the holding company on May 12, 2014.[18] The company celebrated Atkin's 40th year in 2014 with an event organized with its employee recognition supplier, O.C. Tanner. It hung postcards around its headquarters recording company milestones and some of Atkin's well-known sayings, and gave him a career achievement award and a handcrafted belt buckle.[3]

On November 16, 2015, the company announced that Childs would succeed Atkin as chief executive on January 1, 2016, and that Atkin would stay on as board chair.[18] In the announcement Atkin said: "Leading this company for over 41 years has been the experience of a lifetime. We set out to do something a little better and a little different than everyone else". He added that "my decision to move on from the CEO role was ultimately determined by the strong state of the company and my confidence in Chip's leadership."[10] Later filings give December 31, 2015, as Atkin's last day as chief executive.[19]

Board chair (2016 to 2024)

From January 2016 the roles of chair and chief executive were held by different people for the first time since 1991. In its proxy statements the board said the split let Childs concentrate on running the business day to day while the chair focused on board oversight.[2] As chair, Atkin was not classed as an independent director.[1] While Atkin was chair, the company sold ExpressJet in January 2019 (see Major deals).[20]

The company's Corporate Governance Guidelines say directors are generally not nominated after their 75th birthday, and that each director who reaches 75 must submit a resignation letter. Atkin submitted his, and on March 22, 2024, the board accepted his offer to retire as a director and board chair from the 2024 annual meeting. The company said his decision "was not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices".[11][2] At that meeting, on May 7, 2024, he left the board after almost 50 years as a director, and Welch, previously lead independent director, became chair.[2][11] Atkin is not on the list of directors in SkyWest's 2026 proxy statement.[21]

Leadership and management style

Atkin described his approach in terms of reliability and financial caution. "Doing what's right has been a strong guiding principle for me personally," he said in the 30th-anniversary article. "We do what we say we will do. We always have."[13] He recalled that in the airline's early days it was "determined to fly all six on time, even if we only had one passenger. We'd fly that plane to Salt Lake City and bring it back empty if we had to. We wanted people to know they could count on us."[13] He named two core values, quality for the customer and financial responsibility, and later said the same standards applied to employees, shareholders and the communities the airline served.[13]

He was open about how improvised the airline's early business had been. In a 2001 interview with Utah Business he talked about the deportation charters the airline flew for the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "It was kind of crummy work, but it usually happened late in the afternoon and was done by nightfall, so we could make money during the daytime."[22]

The O.C. Tanner case study on his 40th anniversary reported that staff planning the event knew Atkin did not want it to be about him. He said at the time that the point was "to highlight what we've accomplished together as one team" and that "this reinforces the culture that we're all in this together."[3] The same publication quoted his summary of the company's approach: "If you take good care of the customer, create a great culture that attracts and keeps great people who believe in the same thing you do, you'll be successful."[3]

On labour costs, Atkin argued in 1994 that regional carriers were doing better than the major airlines because they were more flexible. The majors, he said, had come out of deregulation with built-in costs such as unionized workforces, while SkyWest was non-union.[6] He also stressed that the airline ran its own operation even though Delta handled its reservations: "that's the only thing we rely on them to do. We do all of our own customer service, plane maintenance, pilot training and such."[6] That changed with the 2005 and 2010 acquisitions. By the end of 2010 about 40 percent of the group's 18,378 full-time-equivalent employees, mainly at Atlantic Southeast and ExpressJet, were represented by unions. SkyWest Airlines' own 9,067 employees remained non-union, although the company noted that unions continued to try to organize them.[23]

Major deals and strategic decisions

Sun Aire Lines (1984)

In the early 1980s the airline's traffic was seasonal: strong in summer and weak in winter. Atkin saw Palm Springs, which was busiest when Atkin's airline was quiet, as a way to use its aircraft more fully. In 1983 Sun Aire's managers told Atkin and his colleagues the owners were not interested in selling, so early in 1984 the company opened its own Palm Springs station.[13] At the opening it learned that Sun Aire's owner was in fact selling to another buyer. Atkin said he "called directory assistance to get the number and worked my way through the phone maze starting with the receptionist". Within two weeks the three Atkins were meeting the owners, the DiGiorgio Corporation, in San Francisco.[13][7] He described it as "an $8 million deal and they wanted to close in six weeks. We had no clue about financing, and we told them that." A Utah bank made the loan on the personal guarantees of every SkyWest board member, and the deal closed less than two months after his first call.[13] "It was a huge step for us, size-wise and mentally," Atkin said.[13] The combined airline had the world's largest fleet of Fairchild Metro aircraft and gained access to the Los Angeles market.[7]

Code-sharing with Delta, Continental and United (1985 to 1998)

In 1985 the airline took a code-sharing agreement with Western Airlines at Salt Lake City, where Western had about 70 percent of the market, and flew as Western Express. When Delta bought Western, the airline became a Delta Connection carrier from April 1, 1987.[7][15] The Delta agreement was revised on July 1, 1990. By 1994 Delta owned about 15 percent of the company's shares.[15][6] The airline added a Continental Connection agreement at Los Angeles in October 1995 and a United Express agreement from October 1, 1997, which it extended to San Francisco in June 1998 and to the Pacific Northwest.[15][16] According to the company's 2001 annual report, having several code-sharing partners reduced its reliance on any one major airline and allowed it to grow within two major airline networks.[16]

Regional jets (1993 to 1994)

Under Atkin the company ordered Canadair Regional Jets to take over routes Delta was dropping from Salt Lake City. The jets entered service in March 1994.[6][7] By March 31, 2001, the fleet had 91 Embraer Brasilia turboprops and 17 Canadair Regional Jets. The company also had agreements to buy 113 more regional jets, with options on another 119.[16]

Atlantic Southeast Airlines (2005)

On August 15, 2005, the company announced an agreement to buy Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Delta's wholly owned regional subsidiary based in Atlanta, for $425 million, plus the return of $50 million in aircraft deposits to Delta.[24] The companies said the deal would create the largest regional airline in the United States. Together they had 372 aircraft, about 13,400 employees and estimated 2005 revenues of about $2.5 billion.[24] Atkin said that through the deal "our company will enter into long-term agreements with initial terms of 15 years with Delta at both ASA and SkyWest Airlines, making SkyWest the most significant regional relationship in the Delta Connection program."[24] The deal included protection in case Delta filed for Chapter 11. Part of the price, $125 million, was payable to Delta only once Delta had affirmed the two Delta Connection agreements in any bankruptcy, or after four years.[24] The purchase closed on September 7, 2005, for $421.3 million in cash plus $5.3 million in fees, and ASA brought about $1.25 billion of long-term debt with it.[8]

ExpressJet (2010)

On August 4, 2010, the company announced a definitive merger agreement under which Atlantic Southeast would buy ExpressJet Holdings for $6.75 per share in cash, a net price of about $133 million. The deal came with a new long-term capacity purchase agreement with Continental Airlines.[25] The acquisition closed on November 12, 2010. At the time ExpressJet served more than 130 destinations with about 1,200 daily departures. The two airlines were to be merged under one operating certificate, with Atlanta as headquarters.[9] The deal raised the group's workforce to 18,378 full-time-equivalent employees by December 31, 2010.[23]

The ExpressJet business later struggled. In 2014 the ExpressJet segment lost $117.9 million, and the group as a whole reported a net loss of $24.2 million.[26] In January 2019, with Atkin as chair, the company sold ExpressJet in two parts. United Airlines bought certain assets for $60 million, and ManaAir, LLC, a company in which United held a minority stake, bought the shares for $16 million.[20]

Financial and market performance

During Atkin's tenure the company's revenue rose from $146.8 million in fiscal 1993 to $283.3 million in fiscal 1997 and $531.1 million in fiscal 2001.[15][16] In 1994 Atkin said the company's market value had passed $100 million for the first time. Its shares then traded on NASDAQ at about $38, up from $10 at the 1986 flotation after a couple of stock splits.[6] After the ASA purchase, revenue rose from $1.16 billion in 2004 to $1.96 billion in 2005. Net income in 2005 was $112.3 million.[8] Revenue peaked at $3.65 billion in 2011, then fell to $3.10 billion in 2015, Atkin's last year as chief executive. The company returned to a net profit of $117.8 million that year after the 2014 loss.[26]

SkyWest, Inc. selected results during Atkin's tenure as chief executive
Year Operating revenues Net income (loss) Source
Fiscal 1993 $146.8 million $6.7 million [15][6]
Fiscal 1997 $283.3 million $10.1 million [15]
Fiscal 2001 $531.1 million $57.1 million [16]
2005 $1.96 billion $112.3 million [8]
2008 $3.50 billion $112.9 million [23]
2010 $2.77 billion $96.4 million [23]
2014 $3.24 billion ($24.2 million) [26]
2015 $3.10 billion $117.8 million [26]

The workforce grew from about 2,000 in 1994 and 2,179 full-time-equivalent employees in June 1997 to about 18,500 full-time-equivalent employees in early 2015.[6][15][17]

Compensation and shareholding

The company's proxy statements disclosed Atkin's pay as chief executive. His total compensation was $1.20 million in 2008 and $1.64 million in 2009.[5] It was $1.89 million in 2012, $1.49 million in 2013 and $1.78 million in 2014.[17] In 2015, his final year as chief executive, it was $2.25 million, made up of a salary of $430,800 plus stock, option, performance and incentive awards.[19] As non-executive chair he received $300,000 for 2022: $200,000 in cash and $100,000 in stock.[1] As of March 2, 2023, Atkin beneficially owned 531,091 shares, about 1.1 percent of the company and the largest holding among its directors and officers.[1]

Board memberships and outside roles

  • SkyWest, Inc.: director from July 1974 to May 7, 2024; board chair from 1991 to May 7, 2024.[1][2]
  • Zions Bancorporation, a regional bank holding company based in Salt Lake City: director from 1993 to July 2020.[1]
  • The Regence Group, a medical insurance holding company: board member as of 2000.[4]
  • Utah State Board of Regents, the governing board of Utah's public higher education system: appointed in 1999; his term ran to June 30, 2011.[12]
  • Regional Airline Association: chairman as of 1994.[6]

Personal life

Atkin married Carolyn Jones in June 1971 in the St. George temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was born in Cedar City, Utah, and raised in Enterprise, Utah. They first lived in Salt Lake City and moved to St. George in 1974, the year he joined SkyWest. They had four children and nine grandchildren. Carolyn Atkin died on September 16, 2024, of complications after surgery for pancreatic cancer.[27] Her obituary named him as Jerry Clayton Atkin.[27]

Recognition

  • 2014: career achievement award from the company marking 40 years with the company.[3]

During Atkin's time as chief executive, the airline received several industry awards. These were awarded to the company rather than to him personally:

  • 1987: Commuter/Regional Airline of the Year, Air Transport World.[7]
  • 2000: Regional Airline of the Year, Professional Pilot magazine; Best Managed Regional Airline, Aviation Week & Space Technology.[13]
  • 2014: Regional Airline of the Year, Air Transport World.[10]
  • 2015: named one of "America's Best Employers" by Forbes.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 2, 2023 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 23, 2023.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 7, 2024 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 26, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 <ref>"First Class Recognition: Celebrating 40 Years of Great Work".O.C. Tanner.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.July 6, 2000.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 4, 2010 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 12, 2010.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 <ref>Knudson, Max B.."SkyWest escapes from 'the hangar of doom'".March 27, 1994.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc.: Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History".The Gale Group, via Reference for Business.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 14, 2006.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 <ref>"SkyWest Completes ExpressJet Acquisition (Exhibit 99.1 to Form 8-K)".SkyWest, Inc., via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.November 12, 2010.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 <ref>"Chip Childs to Succeed Jerry Atkin as SkyWest, Inc. CEO, Effective January 1, 2016 (Exhibit 99.1 to Form 8-K)".SkyWest, Inc., via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.November 16, 2015.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Current Report (Form 8-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 25, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 <ref>"Board of Regents: Members".Utah System of Higher Education.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 <ref>"SkyWest Airlines Seizes Opportunities to Benefit the West: 30 Years of Service".Energizing Entrepreneurs.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  14. ↑ <ref>"Jerry C. Atkin Profile".Forbes.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Annual Report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1997 (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.June 25, 1997.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Annual Report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001 (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.June 29, 2001.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 5, 2015 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 18, 2015.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Current Report (Form 8-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.November 17, 2015.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 3, 2016 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 17, 2016.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Current Report (Form 8-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.January 22, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  21. ↑ <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 5, 2026 (Schedule 14A)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.March 25, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  22. ↑ <ref>"Sky's the Limit".vLex.October 1, 2001.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.February 25, 2011.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc.".Atlantic Southeast Airlines.August 15, 2005.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  25. ↑ <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Makes Proposal to Acquire ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. (Exhibit 99.1 to Form 8-K)".SkyWest, Inc., via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.August 4, 2010.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 <ref>"SkyWest, Inc. Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.February 26, 2016.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 <ref>"Carolyn J Atkin obituary and life story".theMemories.com (Deseret Digital Media).September 18, 2024.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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