U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed a total of 452,666 workers in June 2005, 3.4 percent fewer than in June 2004, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported today.
A news release summarizing the June employment data may be found at www.dot.gov/affairs/briefing.htm. Additional airline employment data can be found on the BTS website at http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/employees/.
