The ceiling certificate, required to captain an airliner. The ATP count is the closest thing to a measure of the airline hiring pool.
Active in 2025
181,742
Change vs 2024
+2,548
Since 2015
+17%
History
2025181,742
2015 · 154,7302025 · 181,742
Last month
479 airline transport pilots appeared in the August 2026 releasable file that were not in July 2026. That file covers 47% of active pilots, and newly opted-in airmen look identical to newly certificated ones, so this is an upper bound on issuance rather than a count of it.