Originally Posted by
belfordrocks
Skywest was a division of the now defunct Ansett with just 4 F50's. When Ansett went under in 02 it was purchased by private investors and expanded its ops to 8x F50, 8x F100 and 1x A320. So XR is currently an independent company, but it does do quite a number of mining charters.
More on the ownership
here from Air Transport World, April 2008, p.67. An interesting ownership !!
In January 2005, Singapore-based Captive Vision Capital emerged as the controlling shareholder and CVC Chairman Jeff Chatfield was appointed chairman of Skywest. CVC is a subsidiary of majority-Australian-owned Advent Air Ltd., incorporated in Singapore but listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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In January Skywest signed a strategic codeshare agreement with Virgin Blue. The move significantly increases Virgin's footprint in Western Australia and gives its passengers seamless access to a network that will include Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Kununurra while providing additional flights between Perth and Broome. At the same time it gives Skywest passengers similar access to Virgin Blue's extensive route network. The agreement includes full interlining of baggage and frequent-flier points.