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Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, July 2017

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group** Top 10 Airlines July 2016
1 American 100,816 Network American
2 United 82,959 Network United
3 Delta 81,949 Network Delta
4 Southwest 55,356 Low-cost Southwes
5 JetBlue 17,639 Low-cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 12,601 Network Alaska
7 Envoy 11,759 Regional SkyWest
8 SkyWest 11,624 Regional Envoy
9 Spirit 6,217 Low-cost ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 5,738 Other 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