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Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, June 2017

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group** Top 10 Airlines June 2016
1 American 100,571 Network American
2 United 82,922 Network United
3 Delta 82,429 Network Delta
4 Southwest 55,347 Low-cost Southwest
5 JetBlue 17,600 Low-cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 12,468 Network Alaska
7 Envoy Air 11,675 Regional SkyWest
8 SkyWest 11,577 Regional Envoy Air
9 Spirit 6,131 Low-cost ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 5,705 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