Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, March 2017
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines March 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 100,295 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 82,524 | Network | United |
| 3 | Delta | 80,713 | Network | Delta |
| 4 | Southwest | 54,652 | Low-cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 17,007 | Low-cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 11,971 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy Air | 11,238 | Regional | Envoy Air |
| 8 | SkyWest | 11,058 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 9 | ExpressJet | 5,983 | Regional | ExpressJet |
| 10 | Spirit | 5,782 | 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