Kuwait Airways will be resuming flights to India and Manila, Philippines, operating out of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Kuwait Airways will be resuming flights to India and Manila, Philippines, operating out of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
The national airline of the State of Kuwait will resume its operations to/from Manila from April 8 via Dammam's King Fahd International Airport. Passengers will be transported by land through the Nuwaiseeb border crossing from Kuwait to the Dammam.
Captain Abdulwahab Ibrahim Al-Shatti, Kuwait Airways' Acting Chief Executive Officer noted Manila is one of the airline's key destinations for passengers as it continues to gradually resume flights through Dammam amid the current circumstances.
According to aeroroutes, the flights will be operated twice-weekly using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. KU417 will depart Dammam at 1725H every Sunday and Wednesday , arriving in Manila at 0900H the following day. The return flight KU418 will depart Manila at 0035H and arrive back at Dammam at 0555H.
Resumption of Flights to/from India
In a separate announcement, Kuwait Airways is also resuming scheduled flights to four cities in India – Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Kochi – also via Dammam.
From Dammam, flights to Ahmedbad once weekly (every Saturday) started on April 5, Kochi twice-weekly (every Monday, Wednesday) on April 6, Delhi once weekly (every Tuesday) on April 7. Services to Mumbai will start on April 10 with one weekly flight every Friday.
With the addition of the services to the cities in India and Manila, Kuwait Airways will be operating flights to 10 destinations via Dammam. The airline previously launched flights from Dammam to London, Cairo, Istanbul, Lahore, and Amman.
Al-Shatti further noted the airline has mobilized all available resources and systems to receive travel requests and subsequently operating flights to specific destinations. Kuwait Airways has also introduced a service for submitting visa applications for residents with prior bookings on Kuwait Airways flights traveling to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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