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Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, February 2018

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group Top 10 Airlines February 2017
1 American 100,902 Network American
2 United 82,516 Network United
3 Delta 81,772 Network Delta
4 Southwest 56,835 Low-cost Southwest
5 JetBlue 17,979 Low-cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 16,551 Network Alaska
7 SkyWest 13,578 Regional Envoy
8 Envoy 12,589 Regional SkyWest
9 Spirit 6,767 Low-cost ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 6,180 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