The Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA of Kuwait is ready to operate Kuwait International Airport at full capacity from Sunday, Director General Yousif Al-Fozan has been quoted by official sources as saying.
Kuwait International Airport will gradually operate commercial flights for all aviation companies, in accordance with the cabinet’s decision, said Al-Fozan on Thursday, October 21.
The airport has been closed since August last year, when the authorities banned all incoming and outgoing flights from there.
Some hope of resumption of operations were seen in the earlier months of this year, but the spread of the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus stopped the consideration in its tracks.
The directorate succeeded in operating under the challenges and requirements of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, calling on aviation companies and passengers to abide by the Covid-19 safety restrictions needed to enter Kuwait, said the official sources.
The cabinet had announced on Wednesday that the airport would return to operate in full capacity, as part of its plan to return to normal life after the coronavirus impact.
Kuwait has so far seen more than 412,000 cases of Covid-19 infection, of which 2,458 have resulted in deaths.