More than a thousand workers at JFK and LaGuardia have reached a deal to avert a strike.
Security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchairs attendants threatened to walk off the job tonight if they were not given a higher wage.
Workers were demanding a living wage, saying they're only paid $8 an hour.
The terms of the agreement remain unclear.
The workers are employed by a Delta subcontractor, Aviation Safeguards.
The union says the company had threatened to fire workers for striking.
The security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants say they want to be paid a living wage.
"These workers were paid $8 an hour, 20 years of service. Unacceptable," said Donna Hampton, a security officer with Aviation Safeguards.
"Whatever money I have, I got to spend it and make sure my kids is good. And how can I do that with just $10.10 an hour?" said Chennee Cooper, a wheelchair attendant with Aviation Safeguards.
Aviation Safeguards says it pays the wages required by the Port Authority.
According to the Port Authority, the possible strike would have represented just a fraction of workers at the two airports.