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

Percent change in FTEs from the previous month

Dataset Table:

Network Airlines Low-Cost Airlines Regional Airlines All Passenger Airlines**
Sep 2015-Oct 2015 0.1 1.2 2.5 0.7
Oct 2015-Nov 2015 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.3
Nov 2015-Dec 2015 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
Dec 2015-Jan 2016 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.2
Jan 2016-Feb 2016 0.3 1.2 -0.1 0.4
Feb 2016-Mar 2016 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.5
Mar 2016-Apr 2016 0.3 1.2 -0.4 0.4
Apr 2016-May2016 0.5 1.1 0.4 0.6
May 2016-Jun2016 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.5
Jun 2016-July 2016 0.2 0.8 0.4 0.3
July 2016-Aug 2016 0.1 0.4 -0.1 0.1
Aug 2016-Sep 2016 0.0 0.6 -0.6 0.1

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