In April, U.S. airlines employed 693,403 full- and part-time individuals, an 11.8 percent increase from last year’s figure of 620,158, according to the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
All of the major air carriers—defined as having over $1 billion annual operating revenue—servicing Hawaii saw gains from last April.
Hawaiian Airlines (Nasdaq: HA) had 5,008 full-time and 1,256 part-time employees in April for a total of 6,264 employees. It is an 8.3 percent…