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                                                                       EXHIBIT 5

                                 Law Offices of
                      KIMBALL, PARR, WADDOUPS, BROWN & GEE
                           a Professional Corporation
                                   Suite 1300
                             185 South State Street
                              Post Office Box 11019
                         Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0019
                            Telephone (801) 532-7840
                            Telecopier (801) 532-7750



                                 August 31, 1995




The Board of Directors of SkyWest, Inc.
444 South River Road
St. George, Utah  84770

               Re: SkyWest, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-8

Gentlemen:

               As counsel to SkyWest, Inc., a Utah corporation (the "Company"),
in connection with the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the
"Registration Statement") to be filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for registration of 500,000 shares (the "Shares") of Common Stock, no
par value, of the Company to be offered, sold and issued by the Company pursuant
to SkyWest's AllShare Incentive Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"), we have examined
the originals or certified, conformed or reproduction copies of all such
records, agreements, instruments and documents as we have deemed necessary as
the basis for the opinion expressed herein. In all such examinations, we have
assumed the genuineness of all signatures on original or certified copies and
the conformity to original or certified copies of all copies submitted to us as
conformed or reproduction copies. As to various questions of fact relevant to
the opinion hereinafter expressed, we have relied upon certificates of public
officials and statements or certificates of officers or representatives of the
Company and others.

               Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion
that the Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Plan and pursuant to the Registration Statement, will be legally issued, fully
paid and nonassessable.

               We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to
the Registration Statement.


                                        Very truly yours,


                                        KIMBALL, PARR, WADDOUPS, BROWN & GEE