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Table 1: Yearly Change in Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Airline Group

Most recent 13 months - percent change from same month of the previous year

Dataset Table:

Network Airlines Low-Cost Airlines Regional Airlines All Passenger Airlines**
Sep 2014-Sep 2015 3.6 6.6 -2.7 3.3
Oct 2014-Oct 2015 3.6 6.9 1.4 4.0
Nov 2014-Nov 2015 3.7 6.5 -0.2 3.7
Dec 2014-Dec 2015 3.5 7.8 0.9 3.9
Jan 2015-Jan 2016 3.3 7.9 2.0 4.1
Feb 2015-Feb 2016 3.2 8.5 0.2 3.8
Mar 2015-Mar 2016 2.9 9.6 0.4 3.9
Apr 2015-Apr 2016 2.4 10.2 0.1 3.6
May 2015-May 2016 2.3 10.7 0.2 3.7
June 2015-Jun 2016 2.3 11.0 0.9 3.9
July 2015-July 2016 2.4 11.3 3.3 4.3
Aug 2015-Aug 2016 2.5 11.0 3.3 4.3
Sep 2015-Sep 2016 2.6 10.7 2.9 4.3

Notes:

Percent changes based on numbers prior to rounding.

See Table 2 for all passenger airlines, Table 7 for Network, Table 10 for Low-Cost and Table 13 for Regional.

* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.

** Includes network, low-cost, regional and other carriers. Other Carriers generally operate within specific niche markets.  They are: Hawaiian Airlines, Sun Country Airlines and Island Air Hawaii.

Source:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics