US Cargo And Passenger Airlines Lost Few Jobs In July 2022

The employment of the U.S. airline industry which combines both passenger and cargo airlines dropped to 767,772 workers in July 2022.

This is 97 or -0.01% lesser than the employment in June 2022, 767,869. However, when compared with the pre-pandemic situation in July 2019, this value is 24,732, or 3.33%, more.

487,214 workers were employed by the U.S. scheduled-service passenger airlines in July. This is 64% of the industry-wide total. From May 2021, the passenger airlines had continued job growth, with the addition of 2,441 employees in July for a fifteenth consecutive month.

Southwest added 971 employees, leading scheduled passenger carriers, while United Airlines added 800 employees. Delta Airlines added 719 employees to their company.

In July, 276,128 workers were employed by U.S. cargo airlines. this number is 36% of the industry total. Cargo carriers experienced the loss of 2290 employees in July, with FedEx losing its headcount by 2,473.

The Bureau of Transport statistics calculates Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) by dividing the number of part-time employees by 2 and adding that figure to the number of full-time employees. The July values contain 657,365 full-time and 110,407 part-time workers for a total of 712,569 FTEs.

This is an improvement from the 299 FTEs (0.04%) in June. The total FTEs of July is 4.26% greater than that of the pre-pandemic June 2019, 683,459.

26 scheduled passenger airlines in the US employed 460,409 FTEs, 2,265 FTEs (0.49%) than in June 2022. If we look at the total scheduled passenger airline FTEs, the value comes up to 0,605 FTEs. This is 2.36% more than the values in pre-pandemic July 2019.

U.S. cargo airlines employed 247,863 FTEs in July, down 1,736 FTEs (-0.70%) from June. U.S. cargo airlines have increased FTEs by 18,435 (8.04%) since pre-pandemic July 2019.