One day after Malé taxi drivers began the first strike in Maldivian history, all thirty five cabin crew staff of Maldivian Air Taxi (MAT) have staged a walkout in protest at low pay.
MAT is one of two internal airlines offering transfers to tourist resorts. On Monday it could only provide a skeleton service with several of its twenty-two planes grounded and up to eight hundred tourists effected.
Even this service was possible only after the Civil Aviation Department controversially intervened to temporarily suspend regulations requiring all flights to be manned by licensed cabin crew staff.
