It is official. Airline employment is up. The Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reports today that the airlines employed 0.3 percent more workers in May 2007Â than in May of 2006.
Although not groundbreaking news in and of itself, it is a milestone of sorts. This is the first monthly increase in employment in a long time. In fact, if you want to find the last time monthly employment increased, you would have to go all the way back to August 2001, the month before 9/11.
That's a long time -- 68 straight months of declines in employment at the airlines.
We will have to wait to see if this is just an anomaly or the start of an upward trend in employment. I would guess the latter. After all, where else do the airlines have to go but up? Surely the airlines can't cut any more jobs, can they?
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What do you think?
Joe Escobar
Courtesy of San Antonio International Airport
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