Kuwait Airways inaugurated flights between Kuwait City and Barcelona on Tuesday 31 October. The 4,330-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the 134-seat A320neo aircraft. The Gulf carrier faces no competition between the city-pair. Flight KU135 takes off from Kuwait City at 07:15 local time, arriving in Barcelona at 12:30 […]
November 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Kuwait Airways launched a new European service on Wednesday 8 September when it began 2-weekly service to Amsterdam. The inaugural service on the 4,360-kilometre route (flight number KU 127 operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, registration 9K-AOI) departed Kuwait City at 10:41 and touched down in Amsterdam five hours and 18 minutes later at 14:59 local […]
September 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Kuwaiti carrier Jazeera Airways made its first ever appearance at London LHR on Friday 18 June. The route from Kuwait City will operate just weekly initially, though frequency could increase as pandemic travel restrictions ease. The airline used one of its A320neos on the new route. According to flightradar24.com the inaugural service (flight J9 7 […]