WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. airline industry is slowly adding jobs — although not all carriers are growing.
The Transportation Department said Thursday that passenger airlines employed the equivalent of 383,610 full-time workers in March, up nearly 1 percent from a year earlier. It’s the fourth straight monthly gain.
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Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and its AirTran Airways subsidiary shrank by 1.4 percent.
Delta Air Lines added the most jobs, followed by US Airways, Fort Worth-based American Airlines and JetBlue.
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