Planes of Egypt's state-owned carrier, EgyptAir, sit on a runway at Cairo Airport.
(ANSAmed) - Cairo - State-owned EgyptAir hostesses can wear a veil and male cabin crew members can grow their beards, an administrative court ruled on Tuesday.
The airline suspended international flights for 12 hours from Cairo on Friday on a cabin crew strike over pay and conditions, including the right to wear religiously-mandated veils and beards. The company has allowed them for ground personnel but not for cabin crew.
The court ruled in favor of a dozen stewards, who appealed against the company's long-standing regulations, air stewards' union leader Mohmour Khairi told ANSA.
The union put wage demands aside because of the country's grace economic crisis, Khairi said. The Friday strike cost EgyptAir 50 million Egyptian pounds (8 million euros), the union leader explained.
The court's decision follows on the recent lifting of a similar, long-standing ban in Egyptian public media. In July, Egyptian government correspondent Lamiaa Mouafi was the first journalist to wear a veil on camera. Last week, Egyptian viewers saw the first veiled anchorwoman on public TV. (ANSAmed).
