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Senate committee leaders reached agreement yesterday on a bill to tighten the rules for companies that run pension plans -- an effort aimed at preventing more of the big pension […]

The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation yesterday that would require companies to fully fund their traditional pension plans and give some airlines 14 years to pay off their obligations. 'The […]

The federal agency that insures the pensions of 44 million workers took over the retirement plans of 51,000 current and former employees of US Airways yesterday. US Airways said separately […]

Continental Airlines said yesterday that it had enhanced its profit-sharing program but that the change would not be carried out until it obtained $500 million in annual pay and wage […]

United Airlines, which appears likely to default on its pension plans in the coming months, invested a larger-than-average share of its $6.6 billion pension portfolio in illiquid investments, while also […]

Rare is the executive who turns down a pay raise, but American Airlines's chief executive, Gerard J. Arpey, did so last week. The board of AMR, American's parent, voted him […]

Increasing the pressure to obtain labor concessions, Delta Air Lines has told its employees that stiff competition and its own high costs mean its bid to avoid bankruptcy protection may […]

The Northwest Airlines Corporation sought permission yesterday to postpone some 2004 payments to its employee pension plans so it can preserve cash amid a slump in revenue. Northwest asked the […]

Delta Air Lines is canceling executive bonuses for this year and reconsidering its entire compensation program for high-ranking officials as it works to allay lingering employee resentment over the pay […]

When the government took over the pilots' ailing pension plan at US Airways earlier this year, some of them lost thousands of dollars of benefits and the ability to take […]

Delta Air Lines said yesterday that five top executives would forgo bonuses this year as the company tried to persuade pilots to accept pay cuts to help stem losses. The […]

Donald J. Carty, who resigned as the chief executive of the AMR Corporation in April, will not receive a severance package but will get more than $8 million in benefits […]

Delta Air Lines said today that it would change its employees' retirement plans as part of an effort to reduce rising pension costs. Delta said the change, which would affect […]

About 40,000 Delta Air Lines employees will not receive raises this year as the company tries to bolster its finances, officials said today in an internal memo. The decision affects […]

Mechanics at United Airlines should receive a 37.3 percent pay increase this year because their wages lag the industry, according to recommendations that a presidential panel sent to the White […]

Delta Air Lines said its mechanics and cleaners would receive a previously postponed 16 percent pay increase, effective March 16, to give them the second-best pay in the industry. The […]

United Airlines is preparing to ask its employees for wage cuts, according to people close to the company, while the rest of the country's struggling airlines wait to see the […]

Flight attendants at United Airlines will not receive a raise this year, according to an arbitration ruling made public today. A three-member panel found on Thursday that the carrier's flight […]

Last summer, United Airlines set a new standard for pilot pay when it agreed to raise wages 22.5 percent to 28 percent. The airline has since said it was forced […]

American Airlines is extending employee benefits to domestic partners. The move announced today by American, the nation's second-largest airline, followed a similar move last week by United Airlines. 'More and […]

Less than a day before a deadline to sign new contracts or be dismissed, pilots at Cathay Pacific Airways agreed today to pay cuts in return for being let back […]

Cathay Pacific Airways said yesterday that it wanted to cut senior cabin crew's pay by an average of 8 percent in exchange for stock options. Cathay, which is trying to […]

Air Canada will resume contract talks with its 2,100 striking pilots Tuesday, an Air Canada spokeswoman, Nicole Couture-Simard, said today. The pilots of Canada's biggest airline have been on strike […]

Air France began limping back toward normal operations today after pilots accepted a seven-year pay freeze, ending a strike that had grounded most flights since the beginning of the month. […]

Alejandra Barrales Magdaleno's views about unions and labor were forged flying into American cities as a $700-a-month Aeromexico flight attendant, often alongside those from United States airlines whose salaries were […]

Pilots at the All Nippon Airways Company, Japan's second-largest airline, went on strike yesterday to oppose a cut in pay. Two flights between Kansai International Airport in western Japan and […]

Nearly a year after 230 people died in the explosion of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, the House Aviation subcommittee plans a hearing Thursday to determine why the cause has […]

Lufthansa's three-month wage dispute ended yesterday with the airline offering compromises on job guarantees and increased profit-sharing. The Transport and Public Workers union had accepted the basic agreement last October […]

About 500 flight attendants at British Airways P.L.C. have refused to accept pay cuts of as much as 40 percent, forcing the airline to again delay an order for short-haul […]

Mechanics for United Airlines rejected a wage increase proposal, while ramp, food service, dispatch and other workers that are members of the machinists' union accepted the plan, a union hot […]

Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia's main international airline, has reached an agreement with the Transport Workers Union of Australia for an 8 percent wage increase over two years for 5,500 Qantas […]

The union representing pilots at Delta Air Lines Inc. said yesterday that it had tentatively agreed to accept 2 percent pay cuts for its members for the next four years […]

In a rare success for organized labor, flight attendants who struck American Airlines just before Thanksgiving in 1993, today won a pay increase of about 17 percent in a contract […]

In a rare success for organized labor, flight attendants who struck American Airlines just before Thanksgiving in 1993, today won a pay increase of about 17 percent in a contract […]

Thanks to its improved financial performance, Delta Air Lines has awarded bonuses to its executives for the first time since 1990. The company chairman, Ronald W. Allen, received his maximum […]

The Association of Flight Attendants said yesterday that wage cuts proposed by pilots to save USAir were unacceptable. 'The pilots' proposal is a starting point,' the flight attendants' union said […]

The pilots' union at USAir yesterday suggested a sweeping financial restructuring of the airline, which has been plagued by losses. The proposal, which offers wage concessions in return for equity, […]

Delta Air Lines' pilots union has agreed to forgo a 2 percent pay increase and hopes the carrier will use the proceeds to add flights and rehire some pilots. The […]

Companies Concluding one of the longest-running buyout efforts in the history of corporate America, employees of United Airlines gained control of their company, exchanging deep cuts in pay and benefits […]

Representatives of American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association opened contract negotiations today with a radical plan from the airline to change the pilots' pay system. Under the American proposal, […]

To shouts of 'We won! We won!' tens of thousands of students marched through Paris and other French cities today to celebrate their victory over the conservative Government of Prime […]

America West Airlines plans to give raises to employees whose salaries were cut and frozen nearly three years ago when the carrier entered bankruptcy court to reorganize its finances. The […]

Two-tier wages, an idea that many airlines and their unions embraced in the early 1980's to cut costs but later abandoned because it hurt morale, have made a comeback at […]

The top five executives at Northwest Airlines received bonuses totaling more than $2.3 million in 1993, a year in which the company avoided bankruptcy by persuading other employees to take […]

To the Editor: 'Helping a Union Find Its Way' (At Work, Dec. 12) grossly distorted the amount Robert Crandall makes as chairman of the AMR Corporation, the parent of American […]

The low-fare carrier proposed by United Airlines carries the code-name Friendship Express and would be run by unionized workers paid lower wages than other United employees, according to a confidential […]

The last of Northwest Airlines' unions approved an $886 million concessions package today, and the carrier's parent company announced a loss for the second quarter. Ninety-two percent of the 6,130 […]

The UAL Corporation, parent of United Airlines, said yesterday that it would rescind a 5 percent pay cut imposed on some of its management, effective on Aug. 29. But the […]