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29
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders’
SkyWest, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of SkyWest, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2004 and
2003, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each
of the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements
are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures
in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable
basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position
of SkyWest, Inc. and subsidiaries at December 31, 2004 and 2003, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash
flows for the years then ended in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the
effectiveness of SkyWest, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004, based on criteria established in
Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and
our report dated March 9, 2005 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Salt Lake City, Utah
March 9, 2005