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Passenger Airline Employment Increases in April - US DOT

Posted on: Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 09:00 CDT

The US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics has reported that US scheduled passenger airlines employed 1% more workers in April 2008 than in April 2007.

The seven network carriers except American Airlines added full-time equivalent employees (FTE) from April 2007 to April 2008. All of the currently reporting low-cost carriers and regional carriers American Eagle, SkyWest, Horizon Air, Pinnacle, Mesaba, Executive Airlines, Air Wisconsin, Shuttle America and GoJet increased their FTEs compared to 2007.

The seven network carriers employed 283,684 FTEs in April 2008, 68.5% of the passenger airline total, while low-cost carriers employed 14.8% and regional carriers employed 14.5%. FTEs at the seven network carriers increased 7.1% in April 2008, compared to April 2007.

All the network carriers except American Airlines increased FTEs from April 2007 to April 2008. Year-to-year increases were reported by US Airways at 67.5%, Delta at 6.3%, Alaska Airlines at 6.3%, Continental Airlines at 3%, Northwest Airlines at 1% and United at 1.6%. American Airlines's year-to-year employment decline was 0.2%.

Source: Datamonitor

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