No timetable for resuming direct flights with Egypt, India to Kuwait

No timetable for resuming direct flights with Egypt, India to Kuwait

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Directorate General of the Civil Aviation (DGCA) has denied setting a date for resuming direct commercial flights with Egypt and India. In a press statement late Tuesday, Director of the DGCA’s Air Transport Department Abdullah Al-Rajhi said that the directorate is still preparing operation plans according to the current seat limits. He added that no permissions were given to any airline to operate direct flights with the six countries with which the Cabinet has recently agreed on re-operating direct flights.

Once the operation plans are completed, the DGCA will announce the official date of resuming flights with these countries, he said. The Cabinet gave green light to the DGCA for relaunching commercial flights with Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on August 18 after the six countries were restricted in light of COVID-19 restrictions. It underlined that flights with these countries would be subject to measures identified by Kuwait’s ministerial coronavirus emergency committee.

The decision to resume direct flights was taken on recommendation by the coronavirus ministerial committee following a sharp drop in the number of new cases and the number of patients. The DGCA also recalled that immunized passengers are those who have received two doses of