BTS Releases August 2011 Airline Full-Time and Part-Time Employment Data

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), yesterday updated its airline employment web page with August 2011 full-time and part-time employment data.

Total employment (full-time + part-time) by all U.S. airlines including scheduled passenger, charter and cargo:

August 2010                           564,864

July 2011                                 582,658 (revised)

August 2011                           583,523

Individual airline numbers are available on the BTS airline employment web page . The web page provides full-time and part-time employment numbers by carrier by month from 1990 through August 2011.

Airlines that operate at least one aircraft with the capacity to carry combined passengers, cargo and fuel of 18,000 pounds - the payload factor - must report monthly employment statistics.

The next web update for full-time and part-time employment is scheduled for Nov. 9. The BTS press release on full-time equivalent employment for scheduled passenger airlines, including historic comparisons and summary tables, will be issued on Wednesday.