Air India to revise flight schedule to Kuwait

Kuwait Upto Date • February 18, 2015 • 10 Comments

Kuwait has urged the Air India Express, the low cost carrier of the Air India, to revert back to the old timings of its Mangaluru-Bahrain-Kuwait flight service. Addressing presspersons here on Monday, president of the forum P.B. Pinto said that earlier, before the re-introduction of the flight service from October 2014, the flight departed from Kuwait at 12.15 a.m. (Kuwait local time) and arrived here at 7.15 a.m.

It was convenient for passengers as they boarded the flight in the night after dinner and arrived in Mangaluru for breakfast. Day time was not lost for passengers boarding at Kuwait. But after the flight service was re-introduced in October 2014 (winter schedule) after a gap of eight months, the flight arrived in Mangaluru International Airport from Kuwait in the evening at 7.25 p.m.

This meant that passengers would have to board the flight during day at Kuwait. Thus passengers would have to waste daytime for the travel. He said that the Air India Express should provide good seats with enough cushion on the lines of private low cost carriers. It should provide newspapers and magazines on payment like in private carriers. Mr. Pinto said that it should enable booking of travel tickets on credit cards.

Source : The Hindu