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General Info.

          Airport Name       Kuwait Intl. Airport
 AIRPORT   Country           Kuwait

          Code               KWI
 INFORMATION  ICAO           OKBK

          Operator           DG of Civil Aviation

          Serves             Kuwait City
          Ground Handling    NAS & Kuwait Airways






            Elevation           Co-ordinates                              Runway                         Airport Type
                                                     Direction    Length (ft)  Length (m)   Surface
         206 ft /     29°13’36”N 047°58’48”E         15R / 33L    11,155 ft    3,400 m      Concrete   Public / Military
         63m          29.22667°N 47.98000°E          15L / 33R    11,483 ft    3,500 m      Asphalt





           KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is located in                     MAJOR PASSENGER CARRIER(S)
           Farwaniya, 15.5 Km (9.6 miles) South of Kuwait City,   KUWAIT AIRWAYS          IRAQI AIRWAYS
           spread over an area of 37.7 square kilometres (14.6    JAZEERA AIRWAYS         JAZEERA AIRWAYS
           sq. miles) it serves as the primary hub for Kuwait     AIR ARABIA              JORDAN AVIATION
           Airways and Jazeera Airways. A portion of the airport   AIR INDIA              KLM
           complex is designated as Abdullah Al- Mubarak Air      ATLAS GLOBAL            LUFTHANSA
           Base, which contains the headquarters of the Kuwait    BRITISH AIRWAYS         MAHAN AIR
           Air Force.                                             EGYPT AIR               OMAN AIR
           The airport was first launched in the period of 1927–  EMIRATES                PAKISTAN INTL. AIRLINES
           1928. It was originally envisioned as a stop for British
                                                                  ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES      PEGASUS AIRLINES
           planes on their way to British-India. The current main
                                                                  ETIHAD AIRWAYS          QATAR AIRWAYS
           airport structure, designed by Kenzo Tange and opened
                                                                  FLY DUBAI               ROYAL JORANIAN
           in 1979, was executed and completed by Al Hani
                                                                  FLYNAS                  SALAM AIR
           Construction in a joint venture with Ballast Nedam of
                                                                  GULF AIR                SAUDIA
           The Netherlands.
           On May 9, 2017, the Foster + Partners-designed         INDIGO                  SRILANKAN AIRLINES
           Terminal 2 formally broke ground and heavy             IRAN AIR                TURKISH AIRLINES
           construction work began on site. The terminal is being
           built by Turkey’s Limak Holding and was originally
           scheduled for completion in 6.5 years, although the              MAJOR CARGO CARRIER(S)
           contractors and Kuwaiti government have made claims    CARGOLUX                 LUFTHANSA CARGO
           to deliver the project within four years.              DHL AVIATION             TURKISH AIRLINES
           On May 22, 2018, Jazeera Airways launched its own      ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES       QATAR WIRWAYS
           dedicated  terminal  at  Kuwait  International  Airport,
           to be called Terminal 5. All departing  and arriving
           Jazeera flights handled exclusively at Terminal 5
                                                                  Details for Info. subject to change with/without Notice



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