Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, February 2017
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines February 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 99,845 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 82,225 | Network | United |
| 3 | Delta | 79,510 | Network | Delta |
| 4 | Southwest | 54,551 | Low-cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 16,852 | Low-cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 11,785 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy Air | 11,171 | Regional | Envoy |
| 8 | SkyWest | 11,159 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 9 | ExpressJet | 7,229 | Regional | ExpressJet |
| 10 | Spirit | 5,652 | Low-cost | Hawaiian |
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