Employer · WARN Act history · Transportation & Warehousing
American Airlines
19,230 workers across 6 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
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American Airlines has 6 recorded WARN filings affecting 19,230 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, American Airlines has 6 recorded filings covering 19,230 workers across 5 states, primarily WA, the 9th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
American Airlines is a major Transportation & Warehousing contributor — 12% of the sector's 158,362 WARN-laid-off workers across 311 employers, ranking #2 in Transportation & Warehousing.
How 19,230 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
American Airlines WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
American Airlines WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 5 states by total workers affected.
| Year | TX | CO | WA | VA | IN | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19,000 | 109 | 3 | – | – | 19,112 |
| 2012 | – | – | 66 | 48 | – | 114 |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
American Airlines city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
99.4% of named-city WARN workers for American Airlines sit in Fort Worth (19,000 of 19,121).
Lead city Fort Worth · 99.4% · 5 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer AMERICAN-AIR · American Airlines 19,230 workers · 6 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNDER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-MID 6 filings
- WORK-TOP #9
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNDER 56d
- STAT-MULTI 5 states
- BOOK-MULTI 5 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 6 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest American Airlines WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Fort Worth, TX · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 19,000 workers · filed Oct 1, 2020 · 0d runway
- CO · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 109 workers · filed Jul 15, 2020 · 0d runway
- Seattle, WA · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 66 workers · filed Sep 18, 2012 · 59d runway
- Chantilly, VA · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 48 workers · filed Sep 17, 2012 · 60d runway
- Indianapolis, IN · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 4 workers · filed Jul 14, 2008 · 53d runway
Median forward runway across 6 dated filings: 56 days (4 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 2 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - American Airlines WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2012 → 2020: WARN workers affected for American Airlines rose from 114 in 2012 to 19,112 in 2020; notice count rose from 2 to 3.
- 2008 → 2012: WARN workers affected for American Airlines rose from 4 in 2008 to 114 in 2012; notice count rose from 1 to 2.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2020.
Where American Airlines Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. American Airlines is in the 15k+ bucket (#9 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Transportation & Warehousing
- First Notice
- Jul 14, 2008
- Latest Notice
- Oct 1, 2020
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Oct 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
Fort Worth, TX · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Oct 1, 2020
19,000
workers
Filed Oct 1, 2020
SeaTac, WA · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Oct 1, 2020
3
workers
Filed Jul 15, 2020
CO · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Jul 15, 2020
109
workers
Filed Jul 15, 2020
2012
Seattle, WA · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Nov 16, 2012
66
workers
Filed Sep 18, 2012
Chantilly, VA · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Nov 16, 2012
48
workers
Filed Sep 17, 2012
2008
Indianapolis, IN · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Sep 5, 2008
4
workers
Filed Jul 14, 2008
Questions about this American Airlines record
What is the largest American Airlines WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Fort Worth, TX on Oct 1, 2020, covering 19,000 workers in Transportation & Warehousing.
Where were American Airlines's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Fort Worth, SeaTac, and Seattle, among 5 named cities; together they form 6 mass-layoff filings sourced from the public WARN archive and Washington ESD and Colorado CDLE and Virginia Works and Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: CO, IN, TX, VA, WA.
Where is American Airlines's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
99.4% of named-city WARN workers for American Airlines sit in Fort Worth (19,000 of 19,121).
Does American Airlines's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2008 through 2020 across 3 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in American Airlines's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway is between 30 and 59 days; the WARN pay tool can value the gap, but only a qualified adviser can determine whether an exception applies. Of 6 filings on record, 2 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Transportation & Warehousing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries American Airlines notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.