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• SkyWest Airlines leases a 90,000 square foot aircraft maintenance and training facility at the Salt Lake City
International Airport. The Salt Lake City facility consists of 40,000 square feet of maintenance facilities and
50,000 square feet of training and other facilities. We originally constructed the Salt Lake City facility which
we subsequently sold to and leased back from the Salt Lake City Airport Authority. SkyWest Airlines is leasing
the facility under an operating lease arrangement over a 36-year term.
• SkyWest Airlines leases a 90,000 square foot maintenance hangar and a 15,000 square foot office facility in
Fresno, California.
• SkyWest Airlines leases a 28,000 square foot maintenance hangar in Tucson, Arizona.
• SkyWest Airlines leases a 57,000 square foot maintenance facility in Chicago, Illinois.
• SkyWest Airlines owns a 55,000 square foot hangar and a 46,000 square foot office facility in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
• SkyWest Airlines leases ticket counters, check-in and boarding and other facilities in the passenger terminal
areas in the majority of the airports it serves and staffs those facilities with SkyWest Airlines personnel. Other
airlines, including Delta, Midwest and United, provide ticket handling and/or ground support services for
SkyWest Airlines in 76 of the 158 airports to which SkyWest Airlines flies.
• We own the corporate headquarters facilities of SkyWest and SkyWest Airlines, located in St. George, Utah, in
two adjacent buildings of 63,000 and 55,000 square feet, respectively. Both facilities were internally funded
with cash generated from operations and were subsequently refinanced with third-party debt.
ASA Facilities
• ASA leases 63,300 square feet in an office building located at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport which serves as ASA’ s corporate headquarters. The lease expires on April 30, 2008.
• ASA is currently improving a 203,170 square foot facility that will be used for maintenance and administrative
office space in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility is leased from the city of Atlanta and the lease expires April 30,
2033.
• ASA leases a 15,084 square foot facility in Atlanta, Georgia. This facility is a shop that provides for repair of all
ground equipment in the ASA system. The facility is leased from the City of Atlanta and the lease expires
April 30, 2033.
• ASA leases a 78,550 square foot aircraft maintenance facility in Macon, Georgia. The Macon facility also
contains a 7,500 square foot training and storage facility. The Macon facility is bond-financed, with the lease
expiring in 2018.
• ASA leases a 39,000 square foot aircraft maintenance facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ASA has the right to
occupy the Baton Rouge facility rent-free until 2022.
• ASA leases a 63,800 square foot parts storage facility located near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport.
• ASA leases smaller aircraft line maintenance facilities in Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Fort
Walton Beach, Florida; Montgomery, Alabama; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
• ASA uses 29 gates at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 13 gates are leased directly from the
airport authority, six gates are subleased from US Air, eight gates are subleased from Delta and two gates are
used pursuant to a month-to-month arrangement with the City of Atlanta.