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Top 10 Airlines, November 2016

Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees* FTE numbers in thousands (000’s)

Dataset Table:

Rank Airline Total FTE Employees Carrier Group** Top 10 Airlines November 2015
1 American 99.4 Network American
2 United 82.0 Network Delta
3 Delta 79.3 Network United
4 Southwest 53.7 Low-Cost Southwest
5 JetBlue 16.7 Low-Cost JetBlue
6 Alaska 11.5 Network Alaska
7 Envoy 10.9 Regional SkyWest
8 SkyWest 10.7 Regional Envoy
9 ExpressJet 6.4 Regional ExpressJet
10 Hawaiian 5.6 Other Spirit

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