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percent since 2008, according to a report releasedf Wednesday. Overall, the number of employees in the strugglingv passenger airline industryfell 5.7 percent from Aprilk 2008, according to the Bureau of Transportatiomn Statistics, a division of the . The industry, whicu has been particularly hard hit by thecurrent recession, has seen year-over-yeaer employment declines for nine straighty months. Low-cost airlines — those operatingt under a low-cost business model with reducedf infrastructure and aircraft operatingcosts — registered year-over-year growthu for the first time since September 2007.
Carriere Virgin America and Allegianr led the waywith double-digitg percentage job growth, while , the third-largest carrier at , grew by 1,617 workers, a jump of 4.8 percent. But Denver-basede Frontier, which is cutting operational costs in its attempyt to come outof bankruptcy, reduceds its staff by 759 workers over the past according to the report. The 14.8 percent work forcre reductionfor Frontier, DIA’s second-largest carrier, was the third-largestg decline among the 37 airlinex listed in the report. United, DIA’s largest reduced staff by roughly 7,20p0 people in the past That 13.
4 percent cut was the largesft among theseven “network” airline that operate a significant portion of theifr flights using at least one hub, according to the Roughly 392,100 people are employefd now by passenger airlines.
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