After long wait, Kuwait Airways is back in KL

After seven years, Kuwait Airways is finally back in Malaysia’s skies. The first Kuwait Airways flight, a Boeing 777-300ER plane, touched down at the KL International Airport here at 11.40am yesterday to the traditional greeting of water cannons. Carrying some 300 passengers, the KU409 flight had earlier taken off from Kuwait City at 3.40am Malaysia time. Chairman of ATS Global Travel and Charter, a company which was appointed as a general service agent for Kuwait Airways in Malaysia, Datuk A. Aziz Ahmad said the flight frequency would be twice weekly, adding that this would be increased with growing demand. “Kuwait is an international hub and Malaysians will be able to transit worldwide from Kuwait to destinations like London, United Kingdom, and Munich, Germany. “Kuwait Airways’ aircraft is one of the new ones and the best but as you are all aware, we are in the recovery phase so we can expect the frequency to increase in the future,” he said.<br/>