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U.S. aviation industry adds jobs for fourth straight month

May 22, 2014, Washington, D.C. - The U.S. airline industry is slowly adding jobs, although not all carriers are growing.


May 22, 2014  By The Associated Press

The Transportation Department said Thursday that passenger airlines
employed the equivalent of 383,610 full-time workers in March, up nearly
1 per cent from a year earlier. It was the fourth straight monthly
gain.

 

United had the most workers, 80,694, but that was down 2.1
per cent. Southwest and its AirTran Airways subsidiary shrank by 1.4 per
cent.

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Delta added the most jobs,
followed by US Airways, American and JetBlue. Two smaller carriers,
Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air, grew fastest in percentage terms,
both posting double-digit gains.

 

Several regional airlines added jobs including SkyWest, Republic and Mesa. They fly smaller planes for the big airlines.

The government counts two part-time employees as one full-time worker.

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