| Maintenance Staff per Billion of Departed Seats | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | ||
| American | 76 | 89 | 95 | 106 | 110 | 109 | 119 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 104 | 104 | 103 | 111 | 105 | 106 | |
| Continental | 42 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 47 | 51 | 53 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 56 | 55 | 59 | 64 | 66 | |
| Delta | 42 | 36 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 34 | 36 | 53 | 59 | 56 | 46 | 45 | 51 | 52 | 56 | 45 | |
| Northwest | 45 | 44 | 49 | 61 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 47 | 30 | 26 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 | - | |
| United | 30 | 14 | 97 | 100 | 102 | 103 | 106 | 53 | 75 | 49 | 47 | 46 | 47 | 67 | 48 | 53 | |
| US Airways | 53 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 51 | 51 | 4 | 52 | 54 | 48 | 32 | 65 | 50 | 44 | 50 | 48 | |
| American West | 27 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 23 | 21 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 30 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| --sub Network | 47 | 44 | 63 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 63 | 65 | 69 | 62 | 53 | 54 | 54 | 61 | 62 | 64 | |
| Southwest | 7 | 8 | 8 | - | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 | |
| jetBlue | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 20 | 21 | 31 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | |
| AirTran | - | - | 33 | 36 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 12 | |
| Frontier | 9 | 12 | 19 | 19 | 42 | 48 | 44 | 43 | 30 | 25 | 34 | 31 | 31 | 17 | 20 | 22 | |
| Virgin America | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 5 | 20 | 27 | |
| -- sub LCC | 7 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | |
| Alaska | 23 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 29 | 31 | 29 | |
| Hawaiian | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 24 | 16 | 22 | 21 | - | 17 | 18 | |
| Allegiant | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 35 | 30 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 36 | |
| -- sub Other | 19 | 6 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 33 | 11 | 12 | 25 | 19 | 25 | 26 | |
| Total All Sectors | 42 | 38 | 55 | 57 | 60 | 57 | 53 | 55 | 56 | 51 | 43 | 41 | 41 | 45 | 45 | 46 | |
| * Total In-House Maintenance Employee Equivalents per billion of departed seats | |||||||||||||||||
| Note: Shaded data means data appear questionable. | |||||||||||||||||
| Data Source: US DOT Form 41, Schedules P52 & P10 | |||||||||||||||||