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Table 15: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, January 2013-2017

(FTEs for January of each year. Ranked by January 2017 FTEs)

Dataset Table:

Rank 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Percent Change
2013-2017 2016-2017
1 Envoy 11,324 11,017 10,693 10,657 11,059 -2.3 3.8
2 SkyWest 9,400 9,816 9,700 10,438 10,985 16.9 5.2
3 ExpressJet 8,832 9,178 8,525 7,325 6,233 -29.4 -14.9
4 YX/S5/RP Combined 5,444 5,886 5,904 5,410 5,516 1.3 2.0
Republic# 2,160 2,747 3,141 3,133 5,516 155.4 76.1
Shuttle America# 2,035 1,977 2,763 2,277 N/A N/A N/A
Chautauqua# 1,249 1,162 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
5 Endeavor 4,902 3,911 3,383 3,321 3,811 -22.3 14.8
6 Horizon 2,706 2,795 2,881 3,277 3,287 21.5 0.3
7 Mesa 1,542 1,817 2,272 2,828 3,074 99.4 8.7
8 PSA 1,078 1,166 1,799 2,496 2,815 161.1 12.8
9 Compass 1,097 1,196 1,294 1,653 1,934 76.3 17.0
10 Air Wisconsin 2,535 2,512 1,914 1,840 1,401 -44.7 -23.9
11 GoJet 1,019 1,131 1,112 1,237 1,315 29.0 6.3
12 Executive## 761 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total 50,640 50,425 49,477 50,482 51,430 1.6 1.9

Notes:

* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.

# Effective the end of December 2016, Republic and Shuttle America combined operations and Shuttle America ceased operating. Effective the end of December 2014, Shuttle America and Chautauqua Airlines combined operations and Chautauqua ceased operating.

## Effective the end of March 2013, Executive Airlines ceased operations.

N/A: Carriers did not meet the standard for filing, was no longer operating, merged with another operating carrier or failed to file.  See previous notes.                                                                      

Source:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics