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Table 15: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, January 2014 - 2018

(FTEs for January of each year. Ranked by January 2018 FTEs)

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Percent Change
2014 - 2018 2017 - 2018
1 Envoy 11,017 10,693 10,657 11,059 12,525 13.7 13.3
2 SkyWest 9,816 9,700 10,438 10,985 12,414 26.5 13.0
3 YX/S5/RP Combined# 5,886 5,904 5,410 5,516 5,425 -7.8 -1.6
Republic 2,747 3,141 3,133 5,516 5,425 N/A N/A
Shuttle America 1,977 2,763 2,277 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Chautauqua 1,162 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
4 Endeavor 3,911 3,383 3,321 3,811 4,246 8.6 11.4
5 ExpressJet 9,178 8,525 7,325 6,233 4,234 -53.9 -32.1
6 Horizon 2,795 2,881 3,277 3,287 3,591 28.5 9.2
7 PSA 1,166 1,799 2,496 2,815 3,519 201.8 25.0
8 Mesa 1,817 2,272 2,828 3,074 3,231 77.8 5.1
9 Compass 1,196 1,294 1,715 1,934 1,884 57.5 -2.6
10 Air Wisconsin 2,512 1,914 1,840 1,401 1,466 -41.6 4.6
11 GoJet 1,131 1,112 1,237 1,315 1,283 13.4 -2.4
Total 50,425 49,477 50,544 51,430 53,818 6.7 4.6

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.
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