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