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Employees at U.S. Scheduled Passenger Airlines in the Month of July, 1990-2021

Figure

July 2021 Passenger Airline Employment Line Graph

Dataset Table:

 July FTEs
1990 465,774
1991 450,740
1992 453,433
1993 446,362
1994 439,224
1995 430,971
1996 437,205
1997 455,454
1998 474,577
1999 501,670
2000 524,797
2001 537,161
2002 473,371
2003 434,411
2004 444,431
2005 428,091
2006 402,991
2007 414,315
2008 411,095
2009 386,779
2010 378,068
2011 387,495
2012 388,601
2013 381,299
2014 386,243
2015 396,503
2016 413,746
2017 428,209
2018 444,988
2019 449,804
2020 413,056
2021 402,561

Notes:

FTE calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.

Source:

U.S. airline employment reports are filed monthly with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. See the tables that accompany this release on the BTS website for detailed data since 2015 (Tables 1-15) and industry summary data since 1990.