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Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, January 2017

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group** Top 10 Airlines January 2016
1 American 99,490 Network American
2 United 82,146 Network Delta
3 Delta 79,157 Network United
4 Southwest 54,051 Low-Cost Southwest
5 JetBlue 16,789 Low-Cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 11,614 Network Alaska
7 Envoy 11,059 Regional Envoy
8 SkyWest 10,985 Regional SkyWest
9 ExpressJet 6,233 Regional ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 5,600 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