Total Full-time Employee Non Cockpit 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              74,463              69,948              71,957              73,657              80,603              82,257              81,317              86,641              73,913              69,481              65,888              64,185              63,475              62,619              58,427              57,572              58,493              56,792              51,642              52,940              86,522              88,802              90,299              89,321              90,375              66,705
Continental              26,458              26,966              29,525              33,083              36,206              37,812              37,588              34,040              34,542              33,204              33,121              34,955              36,350              36,052              34,493              33,561              32,658                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -  
Delta              57,954              50,696              56,497              60,806              64,377              62,261              62,037              57,245              51,790              50,772              46,050              39,856              41,382              41,029              39,791              66,041              69,450              67,892              65,371              67,187              70,524              71,948              73,253              75,037              76,693              54,187
Northwest              38,678              40,563              41,930              44,143              44,867              45,570              43,807              39,184              34,621              33,512              30,990              26,198              25,279              24,779              19,535                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -  
United              68,021              71,343              64,245              78,083              80,871              83,923              82,582              67,478              54,638              54,486              50,528              48,750              48,822              45,199              41,006              40,545              41,001              78,067              77,150              73,909              73,100              77,532              74,627              75,297              78,407              58,674
US Airways              36,310              35,377              35,415              33,900              35,061              37,322              29,214              27,576              23,589              23,542              18,603              18,317              29,978              28,449              27,267              26,909              27,548              27,206              28,007              28,414                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -  
America West                9,015                9,431              10,091              10,936              12,049              10,546              10,344              10,624              11,231              11,892              10,292              11,210                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -  
 --sub Network            310,899            304,324            309,660            334,608            354,034            359,691            346,889            322,788            284,324            276,889            255,472            243,471            245,286            238,127            220,519            224,628            229,150            229,957            222,170            222,450            230,146            238,282            238,179            239,655            245,475            179,566
Southwest              16,905              20,038              21,771                       -                24,412              25,355              27,123              29,455              29,338              27,478              27,008              27,322              28,363              29,092              28,187              28,666              30,428              36,405              35,624              36,672              39,938              43,218              46,545              47,322              49,038              43,704
AirTran                       -                         -                     318                2,545                3,387                3,488                3,592                3,958                4,490                4,912                5,325                6,090                6,806                6,700                6,685                6,607                6,125                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -  
jetBlue                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                     490                1,864                2,557                3,752                5,041                6,403                7,821                8,006                8,383                8,788                9,383                9,728              10,162              10,463              10,815              11,595              12,571              13,774              14,296              14,825              12,276
Alaska                6,115                6,659                7,163                5,986                6,400                8,292                8,770                8,813                8,692                8,460                7,938                7,955                8,295                8,267                7,676                4,938                4,935                7,795                8,028                8,872                9,844              10,317              11,836              14,545              14,767              13,576
Virgin America                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                     763                1,123                   779                   934                1,827                1,914                1,931                2,064                2,251                2,382                       -                         -                         -  
Hawaiian                1,756                1,947                1,979                2,056                   138                2,876                2,480                2,480                2,480                2,821                2,575                2,931                2,983                       -                  3,221                3,366                3,750                4,262                4,638                4,769                4,918                5,506                5,914                6,496                6,599                4,315
 --sub Hybrid              24,776              28,644              31,231              10,587              34,337              40,501              43,829              47,263              48,752              48,712              49,249              52,119              54,453              53,205              55,680              53,739              55,900              60,451              60,667              63,059              68,359              73,863              80,451              82,659              85,229              73,871
Allegiant                       -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                         -                     251                   362                   422                   663                   867                1,023                1,210                1,216                1,171                1,383                1,534                1,385                1,897                2,312                2,480                2,952                3,098                2,893
Frontier                   284                   491                   457                   669                1,151                1,198                1,831                2,013                2,486                3,092                3,191                3,379                4,515                4,298                4,140                3,635                3,610                3,769                2,726                3,135                2,017                2,307                2,672                2,911                3,442                3,423
Spirit                   317                   437                   476                       -                  1,282                1,667                1,742                2,228                2,214                2,114                1,779                1,650                1,699                1,884                1,485                1,848                1,905                3,011                2,871                3,110                3,559                4,279                5,165                6,094                6,625                6,645
 -- sub ULCC                   601                   928                   933                   669                2,433                2,865                3,573                4,241                4,951                5,568                5,392                5,692                7,081                7,205                6,835                6,699                6,686                8,163                7,131                7,630                7,473                8,898              10,317              11,957              13,165              12,961
Total All Sectors            336,276            333,896            341,824            345,864            390,804            403,057            394,291            374,292            338,027            331,169            310,113            301,282            306,820            298,537            283,034            285,066            291,736            298,571            289,968            293,139            305,978            321,043            328,947            334,271            343,869            266,398
Note: Shaded data means data appear questionable.  
Data Source:  US DOT Form 41 via BTS, Schedule P10.