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Have you ever dreamed about working for an airline? Which airline would it be? What position would you hold? What city would you work in? And how many coworkers would you have?
Top 10 US Passenger Airline Employers
Air Transport World compiled a list of US passenger airlines with the largest number of employees as of September 2014. (Note: Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Employee calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.
- United Airlines – 79,064 FTE employees
- Delta Air Lines – 75,616 employees
- American Airlines – 59,829 employees
- Southwest Airlines – 45,750 employees
- US Airways – 31,668 employees
- JetBlue Airways – 13,381 employees
- Envoy Air – 10,972 employees
- Alaska Airlines – 9,956 employees
- SkyWest Airlines – 9,830 employees
- ExpressJet Airlines – 9,092 employees
Bottom Line:
Anyone work for an airline and care to share where you work and what you do? Anyone considering working for an airline? Which airline would you want to work for and why?
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I work at United headquarters. Network planning. I love it. Always wanted to work for an airline. It’s a dream job. Can fly anywhere in the world for free, even first class
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