First of 75 flights carrying pilgrims to take off Friday

First of 75 flights carrying pilgrims to take off Friday

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: Flights to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj will begin Friday June 23, as 75 flights will be operated to transport 9,000 pilgrims by five Kuwaiti and Saudi airlines, Deputy Director-General for Planning and Projects Affairs and official spokesperson of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation Saad Al-Otaibi said. Kuwait has affirmed its readiness to meet the needs of the pilgrims and ensure the pilgrims’ safe arrival to Saudi Arabia. Abdulaziz Al-Shatti, Head of the Public Relations Committee of the Kuwaiti Hajj Mission, affirmed in a statement that the committee is receiving and answering calls of pilgrims while coordinating with the Kuwaiti Hajj Mission and hajj campaign owners.

“The committee also coordinates with the ministry of health regarding any emergency and to provide needed medicines or hospital admissions,” he added. Mishaan Shuwais, a member of the Services Committee of the Kuwaiti Hajj Mission, said in a statement to KTV that the mission’s members had arrived in the sacred places in Saudi Arabia to serve the guests and arrange what pilgrims need in terms of services, food and others.

Earlier, Director of the Operations Department at the General Administration of Civil Aviation Mansour Al-Hashimi indicated that according to the quotas assigned