It is not going to be business as usual for EgyptAir as unfavourable working conditions, understaffing and unaccepteable compensation forced the national carrier’s flight attendants to embark on a strike on Friday, costing the company an estimated six million Egyptian pounds (around $985,000), according to AFP.

After a backlog of over 50 international flights and a plethora of agitated and stranded passengers, management agreed to the flight attendants’ demands before the strike was ended 12 hours later.

However, international news agency, Reuters reports the attendants said through their spokesperson Tamer al-Sioufi, that there would be another strike if the agreement was not totally implemented.

The strike is one of the many union actions that have occurred in different sectors of Egypt’s economy since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, with labour leaders protesting corruption, unfavourable working conditions and underpayment.

One of the major contentions for the strike action was the ban on the wearing of scarf for female flight attendants; a move born out of former Egypt ruler, Hosni Mubarak’s policy to avoid projecting the state as Islamic.

Only 9 days ago, for the first time, an Egyptian broadcaster read the news on national TV wearing a scarf, indicating the repealing of the national policy.