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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

May 2005 Employment Down 3.2 Percent from May 2004 for the US airline companies
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed a total of 452,250 workers in May 2005, 3.2 percent fewer than in May 2004 , the U.S. Department of Transportation`s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today (Table 1). BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that the seven network carriers employed 304,665 total full-time and part-time workers -6.3 percent fewer workers in May 2005 than a year earlier (Table 2). The low-cost carriers reported 74,185 total employees, 0.8 percent fewer than May 2004 (Table 3); and the regional carriers reported 60,490 total employees, 10.9 percent more than the previous year (Table 4).

 



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