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Mapping Out Success: a BTS Field Trip

On February 7, 2024, the halls of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) headquarters were filled with the voices of 40 fourth grade students from Stoney Ridge School, and their teacher Abby Winek, came to visit. “Have you met the Secretary?” the students would ask. “Has the President ever...

October 2018 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.5 percent more workers in October 2018 than in October 2017:

  • October’s 441,139 full-time equivalents (FTE) was the second highest monthly employment total since 2004, exceeded only by July 2018 (443,475 FTEs).
  • October was the 60th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.