| Total Full-time Employee Equivalents | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | ||
| American | 83,463 | 78,902 | 80,842 | 82,470 | 90,136 | 92,665 | 92,277 | 98,960 | 84,770 | 79,410 | 74,962 | 72,757 | 71,818 | 70,925 | 66,519 | 65,506 | 66,522 | 64,529 | 59,532 | 61,527 | 98,885 | 101,504 | 103,101 | 102,942 | 104,216 | 78,309 | |
| Continental | 30,228 | 30,332 | 33,160 | 37,299 | 40,811 | 42,468 | 42,159 | 38,249 | 38,394 | 37,147 | 37,305 | 39,363 | 40,948 | 40,630 | 38,720 | 37,760 | 36,797 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Delta | 66,302 | 58,839 | 64,649 | 69,559 | 72,449 | 71,384 | 70,140 | 65,319 | 58,945 | 57,558 | 52,231 | 45,562 | 47,286 | 47,420 | 46,372 | 76,742 | 80,158 | 78,498 | 75,918 | 77,928 | 82,000 | 83,974 | 85,987 | 88,243 | 89,758 | 66,444 | |
| Northwest | 43,581 | 45,756 | 47,337 | 49,294 | 50,689 | 51,551 | 49,910 | 44,718 | 39,733 | 38,454 | 35,985 | 30,729 | 29,619 | 29,124 | 22,961 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| United | 75,634 | 79,205 | 73,328 | 88,097 | 92,625 | 95,327 | 93,844 | 75,470 | 62,326 | 60,860 | 56,661 | 55,027 | 55,160 | 51,536 | 46,587 | 46,060 | 46,491 | 87,966 | 87,405 | 84,472 | 84,228 | 88,814 | 85,644 | 86,641 | 90,116 | 69,277 | |
| US Airways | 40,972 | 39,952 | 39,936 | 38,382 | 39,905 | 42,652 | 34,005 | 31,404 | 26,736 | 26,509 | 21,202 | 21,449 | 34,256 | 32,683 | 31,340 | 30,876 | 31,551 | 31,241 | 32,132 | 32,843 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| America West | 10,122 | 10,691 | 11,455 | 12,430 | 13,939 | 12,187 | 11,994 | 12,299 | 12,958 | 13,743 | 12,142 | 13,013 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| --sub Network | 350,302 | 343,677 | 350,707 | 377,531 | 400,554 | 408,234 | 394,329 | 366,419 | 323,862 | 313,681 | 290,488 | 277,900 | 279,087 | 272,318 | 252,499 | 256,944 | 261,519 | 262,234 | 254,987 | 256,770 | 265,113 | 274,292 | 274,732 | 277,826 | 284,090 | 214,030 | |
| Southwest | 18,930 | 22,281 | 24,185 | - | 27,374 | 28,671 | 30,848 | 33,421 | 33,360 | 31,675 | 31,543 | 32,167 | 33,680 | 34,680 | 33,813 | 34,230 | 36,104 | 43,840 | 42,955 | 44,169 | 47,395 | 51,037 | 54,815 | 56,262 | 58,263 | 52,199 | |
| AirTran | - | - | 569 | 2,974 | 3,882 | 4,035 | 4,234 | 4,725 | 5,350 | 5,814 | 6,458 | 7,415 | 8,304 | 8,259 | 8,220 | 8,229 | 7,751 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| jetBlue | - | - | - | - | - | 693 | 2,116 | 2,928 | 4,343 | 5,850 | 7,462 | 9,272 | 9,713 | 10,177 | 10,583 | 11,211 | 11,749 | 12,345 | 12,778 | 13,387 | 14,432 | 15,611 | 16,998 | 17,681 | 18,397 | 16,005 | |
| Alaska | 7,007 | 7,647 | 8,237 | 8,710 | 9,310 | 9,531 | 10,115 | 10,142 | 10,040 | 9,900 | 9,269 | 9,322 | 9,680 | 9,628 | 8,912 | 8,649 | 8,917 | 9,176 | 9,489 | 10,471 | 11,614 | 12,225 | 13,896 | 17,520 | 17,919 | 16,643 | |
| Virgin America | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 980 | 1,421 | 1,770 | 2,115 | 2,381 | 2,481 | 2,489 | 2,656 | 2,934 | 3,206 | - | - | - | |
| Hawaiian | 2,014 | 2,207 | 2,247 | 2,343 | 152 | 3,281 | 2,878 | 2,878 | 2,878 | 3,128 | 2,855 | 3,243 | 3,315 | - | 3,635 | 3,802 | 4,265 | 4,863 | 5,251 | 5,368 | 5,520 | 6,160 | 6,661 | 7,291 | 7,458 | 5,080 | |
| --sub Hybrid | 27,951 | 32,135 | 35,238 | 14,027 | 40,718 | 46,211 | 50,191 | 54,094 | 55,971 | 56,367 | 57,587 | 61,419 | 64,692 | 63,724 | 66,584 | 67,891 | 70,901 | 72,605 | 72,954 | 75,884 | 81,617 | 87,967 | 95,576 | 98,754 | 102,037 | 89,927 | |
| Allegiant | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 292 | 437 | 563 | 841 | 1,135 | 1,330 | 1,533 | 1,585 | 1,571 | 1,799 | 1,978 | 1,938 | 2,546 | 3,146 | 3,433 | 3,904 | 4,140 | 3,953 | |
| Frontier | 326 | 582 | 745 | 1,025 | 1,640 | 1,745 | 2,145 | 2,402 | 2,975 | 3,634 | 3,790 | 4,034 | 5,219 | 4,939 | 4,774 | 4,309 | 4,286 | 4,422 | 3,384 | 3,932 | 2,979 | 3,412 | 3,844 | 4,234 | 4,964 | 5,005 | |
| Spirit | 393 | 547 | 786 | - | 1,973 | 1,911 | 2,049 | 2,579 | 2,568 | 2,511 | 2,154 | 2,018 | 2,141 | 2,410 | 1,901 | 2,351 | 2,501 | 3,725 | 3,764 | 4,164 | 4,833 | 5,756 | 7,104 | 8,381 | 9,006 | 9,175 | |
| -- sub ULCC | 719 | 1,129 | 1,531 | 1,025 | 3,613 | 3,656 | 4,194 | 4,981 | 5,835 | 6,582 | 6,507 | 6,893 | 8,495 | 8,679 | 8,208 | 8,245 | 8,358 | 9,946 | 9,126 | 10,034 | 10,358 | 12,314 | 14,381 | 16,519 | 18,110 | 18,133 | |
| Total All Sectors | 378,972 | 376,941 | 387,476 | 392,583 | 444,885 | 458,101 | 448,714 | 425,494 | 385,668 | 376,630 | 354,582 | 346,212 | 352,274 | 344,721 | 327,291 | 333,080 | 340,778 | 344,785 | 337,067 | 342,688 | 357,088 | 374,573 | 384,689 | 393,099 | 404,237 | 322,090 | |
| Note: Shaded data means data appear questionable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data Source: US DOT Form 41 via BTS, Schedule P10. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||