Table 6: Top 10 Airlines, September 2016
Ranked by Number of Full-Time Equivalent Employees*
Dataset Table:
| Rank | Airline | Total FTE Employees | Carrier Group** | Top 10 Airlines September 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American | 99,037 | Network | American |
| 2 | United | 81,776 | Network | Delta |
| 3 | Delta | 79,996 | Network | United |
| 4 | Southwest | 53,072 | Low-Cost | Southwest |
| 5 | JetBlue | 16,324 | Low-Cost | JetBlue |
| 6 | Alaska | 11,327 | Network | Alaska |
| 7 | Envoy | 10,889 | Regional | SkyWest |
| 8 | SkyWest | 10,581 | Regional | Envoy |
| 9 | ExpressJet | 6,567 | Regional | ExpressJet |
| 10 | Hawaiian | 5,467 | Other | Spirit |
Notes:
* Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.
** See Table 9 for Network, Table 12 for Low-Cost and Table 15 for Regional.
Source:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics