Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, September 2017
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines September 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 100,732 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 82,604 | Network | United |
| 3 | Delta | 81,697 | Network | Delta |
| 4 | Southwest | 55,671 | Low-cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 17,615 | Low-cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 12,824 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy | 12,025 | Regional | Envoy |
| 8 | SkyWest | 11,970 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 9 | Spirit | 6,323 | Low-cost | ExpressJet |
| 10 | Hawaiian | 5,827 | Other | Hawaiian |
Notes:
* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time
** See Table 9 for Network, Table 12 for Low-Cost and Table 15 for Regional.
Source:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics