December 2016 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.7 percent more workers in December 2016 than in December 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. December was the highest monthly FTE total (416,337) since March 2008 (416,457) and was the 38th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent (FTE) employment exceeded the same month of the previous year (Tables 1, 2, 3).

Table 15: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, December 2012-2016

Table 14: Regional Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Month 2012-2016, December 2016

Table 13: Regional Airline Year-to-Year Change in Full-time Equivalent Employees* from the Previous Year, December 2016

Table 12: Low-Cost Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, December 2012-2016

Table 11: Low-Cost Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Month 2012-2016, December 2016

Table 10: Low-Cost Airline Year-to-Year Change in Full-time Equivalent Employees* from the Previous Year, December 2016

Table 9: Network Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees*, December 2012-2016

Table 8: Network Airlines Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Month 2012-2016, December 2016

Table 7: Network Airline Year-to-Year Change in Full-time Equivalent Employees* from the Previous Year, December 2016