The bickering that marked the attempt by bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc. to slash its pilots union contract ended Tuesday when the carrier pulled the motion seeking such a result.

Judge Prudence Carter Beatty of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan then approved Delta’s petition to suspend the contentious hearings on the matter, said the lawyer for the pilots’ union, Bruce Simon of Cohen, Weiss and Simon in New York.