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ATR-72 Turboprops
While ASA currently operates 12 ATR-72 turboprops out of Atlanta, we expect that theseaircraft will
be removed from service by December 2008.
Ground Facilities
SkyWest Airlines andASA own or lease the following principal properties:
SkyWest Airlines Facilities
•SkyWest Airlines owns a 56,600 square foot aircraft maintenance facility in Palm Springs, California
•SkyWest Airlines leases a 131,300square foot facility at the Salt LakeInternationalAirport.This
facility consists of a 58,400 square foot aircraft maintenance hangar and 72,900 square feet of
training and office space. In January 2002, we entered into a salelease-back agreement with the Salt
Lake Airport Authority.SkyWest Airlines is leasing the facility under an operating lease
arrangementovera26-year term.
•SkyWest Airlines leases a 90,000 square foot aircraft maintenance and training facility at theSalt
Lake City International Airport. The Salt LakeCity facility consists of 40,000 squarefeet of
maintenance facilities and 50,000 square feet of trainingand other facilities. We originally
constructed theSalt Lake City facility which we subsequently soldto andleased back from the Salt
Lake City Airport Authority.SkyWest Airlinesisleasingthe facility under an operating lease
arrangementovera36-year term.
•SkyWest Airlines leases a 90,000 square foot maintenance hanger anda15,000 square foot office
facility in Fresno, California.
•SkyWest Airlines leases a 28,000 square foot maintenance hanger in Tucson, Arizona.
•SkyWest Airlines leases a 57,000 squarefoot maintenance facility in Chicago, Illinois.
•SkyWest Airlinesiscurrently constructing amaintenancefacility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The facility includes a55,000 square foot hanger and a 46,000 square foot office facility and is
expected to be completed by summer 2007.
•SkyWest Airlines leases ticket counters, check-in and boarding and other facilities in thepassenger
terminal areas in the majority of the airports it servesand staffs those facilities with SkyWest
Airlines personnel. Other airlines,includingDelta and United, provideticket handling and/or
ground support services for SkyWest Airlines in 54 of the133 airports to which SkyWest Airlines
flies.
•We own the corporateheadquarters facilities of SkyWest andSkyWest Airlines, located in St.
George, Utah, in two adjacent buildings of 63,000and 55,000 squarefeet, respectively. Both
facilities were internally fundedwith cash generated from operations and were subsequently
refinanced with third-party debt.
ASAFacilities
•ASA leases 63,300 squarefeetin an office building located at theHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport which serves as ASA’s corporate headquarters. The lease expires on
April 30,2008.