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percent since 2008, according to a report released Wednesday. the number of employees in the struggling passenger airline industrfell 5.7 percent from April 2008, according to the Bureaiu of Transportation Statistics, a division of the . The industry, whichh has been particularly hard hit by thecurrent recession, has seen year-over-year employmeng declines for nine straight months. Low-costt airlines — those operatingy under a low-cost business model with reduced infrastructure and aircraftr operatingcosts — registered year-over-year growth for the firstg time since September 2007.
Carriers Virgim America and Allegiant led the waywith double-digitg percentage job growth, while , the third-largest carrier at , grew by 1,61 7 workers, a jump of 4.8 percent. But Denver-base Frontier, which is cutting operational costs in its attempt to come out of reduced its staff by 759 workers over thepast year, accordinvg to the report. The 14.8 percent work force reductionfor DIA’s second-largest carrier, was the third-largest declins among the 37 airlines listed in the report. DIA’s largest carrier, reduced staff by roughly 7,2090 people in the past year. That 13.
4 percent cut was the largest among theseven “network” airlines that operate a significanty portion of their flightzs using at least one hub, according to the Roughly 392,100 people are employed now by passenge r airlines.