Airline Employment Tables February 2020

Domestic Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 3 Hours and International Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 4 Hours, February 2020

February 2020 Regularly Scheduled Flights with More than 50% Delayed Arrivals of More than 30 Minutes

Employees at U.S. Scheduled Passenger Airlines Month of February, 1990-2020

February 2020 U.S. Passenger Airline Employment Data

The 22 U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.6% more workers in February 2020 than in February 2019:

• February’s 458,832 full-time equivalents (FTEs) was up from the previous month’s employment total in January 2020 (456,398 FTEs) and was the highest FTE total for any month since February 2003 (460,852 FTEs).  
• February was the 76th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Feb 2020 top 25 airline tables

Table 3: International Percent Change in US Airlines Passengers from the Same Month of the Previous Year 2016-2020, February 2020

Table 2: Domestic Percent Change in US Airlines Passengers from the Same Month of the Previous Year 2016-2020, February 2020

Table 1: Systemwide Percent Change in US Airlines Passengers from the Same Month of the Previous Year 2016-2020, February 2020

February 2020 U.S. Airline Traffic Data (Preliminary)

U.S. airlines carried 6.7% more scheduled service passengers in February 2020 than in February 2019, according to preliminary data filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) by the 25 airlines that carry the most passengers.

The 25 airlines carry 99% of the total passengers traveling on U.S. airlines.