Table 9: Network Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, February 2013 - 2017

(FTEs for February of each year. Ranked by February 2017 FTEs)

Dataset Table:

Rank	Airline	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Percent Change
							2013 - 2017	2016 - 2017
1	American	89,968	91,303	93,636	97,405	99,845	11.0	2.5
2	United	82,214	80,694	78,380	79,385	82,225	0.0	3.6
3	Delta	73,465	73,602	76,440	79,214	79,510	8.2	0.4
4	Alaska	9,308	9,559	10,340	10,983	11,785	26.6	7.3
	Total	254,955	255,158	258,796	266,987	273,365	7.2	2.4

Notes:

* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.

** American Airlines and US Airways merged and began reporting combined numbers in July 2015.

Source:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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