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<br /> 04/ 1/03 FRI 10: 3 FAX 541 682 6838 EUGENE AIRPORT PW ADMIN ~ 001 <br /> I <br /> A! R L! JV E S <br /> I, Contact C rporate Communications <br /> ii Sabrena uite: 435.634.3546 <br /> I~, SkyWest Airlines is the Nation's Number <br /> One On-time Airline for the Month of February <br /> For Imm diate Release <br /> I <br /> ST. GEO GE, Utah, April 11, 2003 -SkyWest Airlines, a subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. <br /> it (NASDA : SKYW), is proud to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Transportation <br /> (DOT) in their monthly Air Travel Consumer Report as the number one on-time <br /> domestic air carrier for the month of February. SkyWest ended the month with 85.4% of <br /> their High s arriving on-time. <br /> "lt' an understatement to say we're proud of our airline's accomplishments," Ron <br /> Reber, S yWest Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer explained to <br /> employe s in an online address. While ~ Reber acknowledges that weather was a <br /> ' contributi g factor to the airline's performance, "credit must be given where credit is due <br /> and that i to each of the members of our SkyWest team." <br /> B cause the regional carrier accounts for more than one percent of the total U.S. <br /> II domestic scheduled-service and passenger revenue, the DOT added SkyWest to the <br /> Air Trav I Consumer Report in January of 2003. The report tracks 17 domestic air <br /> carriers' erformance on a monthly basis. SkyWest is one of only five regional carriers <br /> ~I included n the report. <br /> ~ S West Airlines is the nation's largest independently operated regional carrier <br /> ~ and carri d 8.23 million passengers last year. SkyWest operates as a Delta Connection <br /> and Unit d Express carrier under a marketing agreement with Delta Air Lines and <br /> III United Ai lines respectively. SkyWest serves a total of 100 cities in 30 states and two <br /> ~~I Canadia provinces and has more than 1,000 daily departures. <br /> T is press release and information on SkyWest can be accessed at <br /> www.sk est.com. <br /> O <br /> <br />