The flight attendants at Delta took two 10 percent paycuts. The first cut was 10 percent across the board. The second cut was targeted a bit and was not across the board depending on years of service. That took their hourly wage from around 49.70 to just below 40 dollars an hour. In addition they had their work rules slashed to the bone. The work rules were however restored in Jul of 09. There have been 3 pay increases since chapter 11 ended and they are now back to 46.00 dollars an hour.
In addition to the above they pay more for their medical plans and lost a week of vacation much like the pilots. Neither has been restored.
You will on occasion here a flight attendant claim she was making 60 dollars an hour. Thats a bit of a lie. What they are talking about is prior to 2001 the Delta flight attendants were paid a basic flight pay and then a hourly pay for hours flown above the basic. The basic was 2000.00 dollars a month for the first 50 hours or 40.00 dollars an hour. They then received 60 dollars an hour for everything flown above that amount. Sometime around 2001 they went to a blended pay rate which became the 50 dollar an hour rate for all hours flown. I think they based it on the average hours flown per flight attendant being somewhere around 75.00. If you fly less then that the blended rate was a raise, if you flew more it was a pay cut.