Thats not really correct. The flight attendant pay rate prior to Chapter 11 was just under 50 dollars an hour. They took two 10 percent pay cuts and ended up just below 40 an hour. They are back to 46 an hour now.

The 60 dollar rate goes back to pre 2000. Flight attendants at that time were paid a base rate of 2000.00 for the first 50 hours or 40 an hour. They then got 60 an hour for hours flown above 50.00. That was adjusted in 2001 to a one hourly rate for all hours flown. It was set at around 50.00. The blended rate was designed to keep the average flight attendants overall rate exactly the same. If however you were a flight attendant flying high time you took a cut. A low time flying flight attendant saw a raise from the blended rate.