Trends In U.S. Airline Employment in 2013
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Skift Take
Besides the seasonal factors, the macro picture is that U.S. airlines are cutting flights to improve efficiency, and that also means lower number of full time employees.
The drily named Bureau of Transportation Statistics under the U.S. Dept. of Transportation comes out with regular reports of the state of U.S. aviation industry, most of them pretty rich in information and poor in user-friendliness.
In those, the ones about employment and job statistics at U.S. airlines gives a good sense of state of industry, and the latest report for this year, from August 2013, tells a lot more than just the numbers, and we try to make them more accessible, below:
U.S. airlines had 380,328 workers in August 2013, 2.2% fewer than in August 2012, and this was the 12th consecutive month that
