Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, May 2017
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines May 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 100,528 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 82,939 | Network | United |
| 3 | Delta | 81,422 | Network | Delta |
| 4 | Southwest | 55,115 | Low-cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 17,465 | Low-cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 12,246 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy | 11,489 | Regional | Envoy |
| 8 | SkyWest | 11,363 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 9 | Spirit | 5,953 | Low-cost | ExpressJet |
| 10 | ExpressJet | 5,712 | Regional | 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