WNAM REPORT: Kuwait reopened its airspace at Kuwait International Airport on Thursday night, as the fragile ceasefire between US-Israel and Iran appears to be holding following the outbreak of the conflict on Feb. 28 which forced a two-month closure of the facility.
The reopening is part of a “phased plan to gradually resume air traffic in preparation for the airport’s full operation in the coming period,” Sheikh Hamoud Mubarak Al-Hamoud Al-Sabah, head of the country’s civil aviation authority, said in a report from the state-run News Agency.
An assessment has been completed regarding the damage of some airport facilities due to Iranian attacks, and technical teams started maintenance and repair works on equipment and infrastructure, Al-Sabah said.
Initial operations would involve specific stations that were prioritized to ensure airport security and would be expanded upon evaluation, he added.
With the airport’s reopening, Kuwait Airways announced the resumption of services to 17 destinations starting Sunday, April 26, including London, Istanbul, Lahore, Dhaka, Mumbai, Delhi, Manila, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Colombo, Guangzhou, Beirut and Damascus.
Some routes, flying out of the airport’s terminal four, will be served four times weekly while others will have fewer flights. Cairo flights would be operated once a day.
Low-cost Jazeera Airways also announced that flights to nine destinations, coming from the airport’s terminal five, would resume on Sunday.
With services to Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul, Mumbai, Kochi and New Delhi restarting, flights would eventually be expanded to other destinations once operations return to full capacity.
