MIAT will resume
normal international flights tomorrow after they remained canceled for two days
because of a strike by its technical staff. The airline boss has been replaced
with Ts.Orkhon, at present head of the marketing department, for the time
being. The director of the technical department, Yo.Enkhtur, has also been
dismissed.

After holding talks on the crisis, Head of the State
Property Committee D.Sugar and Transport, Construction and City Planning
Minister Kh.Battulga spoke to the media. According to Sugar MIAT has only three
aircraft to fly international routes but there are 120 technical workers. Foreign
consultants have said the work can be done by 30-40 people. Now all 94 strikers
will be dismissed and  technical people
who work in the Civil Aviation Authority and elsewhere in the Transport,
Construction and City planning Ministry would be brought in to have a smaller
and  more efficient new team.
Non-Mongolians could hold senior positions.

Enkhtur charged that relatives of high level MIAT officials
had been employed even though they did not have required skills and this caused
several problems, including one in Beijing
two months ago. “I don’t know about this, but we shall investigate and punish the
guilty,” said Sugar.

Kh.Battulga said the government will change the Governing
Board. The technical staff  have held the
airline to ransom. “Altogether 1,140 passengers couldn’t fly and MIAT lost MNT380
million,” he said.