American Airlines backed away from the brink of a bankruptcy filing yesterday after the flight attendants' union agreed to substantial wage and benefit cuts.

This struggle has entailed enormous cost-cutting measures including large layoffs and substantial wage and benefit reductions - yet with minimal service reductions.

Now the overall economy not only is producing too few jobs; the new service-dominated economy is providing too few good jobs at substantial wages.

So if my mate loses her job and she has been paying 10% of her rather substantial wage all her life then she has quite a few years of benefits coming her way i would argue!

No Bankruptcy at American The flight attendants' union at American Airlines agreed to substantial wage and benefits cuts, permitting the airline to move from the brink of a bankruptcy filing.

Eventually he was bought by big-spenders Mamelodi Sundowns where he was handed a substantial wage.

He was soon earning $50,000 annually, a substantial wage for such work in those years, according to his biography.

With the club £1,000 in debt and in an attempt to ensure success on the pitch, the directors had recruited several top-class players on substantial wages.

It was the first time in a quarter of a century that the U.A.W. had challenged General Motors and when the strike ended, the union had achieved substantial wage and pension gains.

Though growing feebler and declining in health, Frado makes substantial wages.