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Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, November 2017

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group** Top 10 Airlines November 2016
1 American 100,668 Network American
2 United 82,647 Network United
3 Delta 81,506 Network Delta
4 Southwest 56,067 Low-cost Southwest
5 JetBlue 17,788 Low-cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 13,064 Network Alaska
7 Envoy 12,316 Regional Envoy
8 SkyWest 12,156 Regional SkyWest
9 Spirit 6,505 Low-cost ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 5,961 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