Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, December 2016
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines December 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 99,508 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 82,132 | Network | Delta |
| 3 | Delta | 79,447 | Network | United |
| 4 | Southwest | 53,536 | Low-Cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 16,531 | Low-Cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 11,527 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy | 10,930 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 8 | SkyWest | 10,866 | Regional | Envoy |
| 9 | ExpressJet | 6,278 | Regional | ExpressJet |
| 10 | Hawaiian | 5,576 | Other | Spirit |
Notes:
* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.
** See Table 9 for Network, Table 12 for Low-Cost and Table 15 for Regional.
Source:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics