Kuwait Opens Its Airspace After Being Closed for 2 Months Due to the Iran War

JAKARTA - Kuwait reopened its airspace on Thursday night, April 24 local time, after being closed for two months due to the US-Israeli attack on Iran.

The opening of the Kuwait airspace followed the creation of a three-week extension of the Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire in negotiations held at the US White House.

"This reopening is part of a "gradual plan to resume air traffic in preparation for the full operation of the airport in the coming period," said the head of the Kuwait Civil Aviation Authority, Sheikh Hamoud Mubarak Al-Hamoud Al-Sabah, quoted by the Kuwait News Agency via AN.

Al-Sabah added that the assessment of the damage to several airport facilities at Kuwait airport as a result of Iran's retaliatory attacks on US support infrastructure in the war has been completed. Currently, he continued, the technical team has started maintenance and repair work on equipment and infrastructure.

According to him, the initial operation of the airport in Kuwait will involve certain stations that are prioritized to ensure the safety of the airport and will be expanded after evaluation.

With the reopening of its airspace, Kuwait Airways announced it would resume operating 17 destinations starting Sunday, April 26, including London, Istanbul, Lahore, Dhaka, Mumbai, Delhi, Manila, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Colombo, Guangzhou, Beirut, and Damascus.

Some routes, departing from the airport's four terminals, will be served four times a week while other routes will have fewer flights. Flights to Cairo will be operated once a day.