Airlines swim in cash, airport workers high and dry
4 Dec 2016 13:10:00
sltrib.com
After losing more than $50 billion in the decade following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. airlines have been enjoying some financially robust times of late.
On the front lines, airline employees are reaping billions of dollars in wage and benefit increases, plus profit-sharing plans that spell record payouts amid record income. At almost $81,000, average airline worker salaries last year were 38 percent above other U.S. private sector jobs, according to the airlines' trade group, Airlines for America. Carriers' wages rose 29 percent between 2010 and 2015, more than double the national average.
Yet this largesse hasn't been spread equally. If your job is to push a wheelchair through a United terminal, or to check boarding passes for travelers headed to a Delta flight, your pay has been generally unaffected by the industry's cash boom.
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