35,000 Indian Passengers Depart Kuwait In 2 Weeks

Indians Nationals are continuing to take advantage of the special repatriation flights to leave Kuwait to return to their homeland after the second phase was launched yesterday, which increased the flight’s daily quotas from 1,000 passengers to 2,500 passengers on approximately 14 flights, Al Qabas reports.

Al-Qabas daily, quoting an informed source, that the civil aviation authorities agreed with the Indian side to approve the flight schedule for operating 160 flights to carry about 35,000 passengers of the Indian community from 18 to 31 August, with 12 to 14 flights per day to evacuate about 2,500 passengers.

The operating quota for national carriers heading to India daily is 1,250 passengers, bringing the total departures to about 2,500.  The flights depart to several airports in India, including Amritsar, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kochi, Calicut and Bangalore.

Al Qabas reports that Sri Lanka has requested departure flights for its citizens wishing to return to their country, and the decision will be made within days for the approval for 14 departing flights. It is expected to start on 22 August, to carry about 2,500 passengers from the Sri Lankan community on two trips over a full week or daily trips for two continuous weeks.

Requests for flights

Regarding the presence of new requests by some countries to operate flights for their citizens wishing to leave, Al Qabas stated, quoting sources that until now, no country has submitted any request to operate flights for its nationals except for India and Sri Lanka.

Filipinos are traveling to the Philippines from Kuwait via one or two trips per week, but it is very limited and not to a fixed schedule. The Cabinet released instructions that all difficulties faced by expats wishing to travel and leave to their homelands should be overcome, and the procedures for departing flights to the countries on the ban list would be facilitated in coordination with the Air Transport Administration to receive airline requests, according to the procedures in place, to obtain the necessary approvals.

The circular banning the entry of expats into Kuwait from 31 countries has not undergone any amendments or addition. The list will continue without alterations until the end of this month, and adding or removing any country from the list is based on instructions from the Health authorities that review the decision every 10 days.

14-day condition is a necessity

There has been no amendment to the ban list of entry to expats of all nationalities coming from the 31 banned countries, whether coming directly from those countries or by transit through other non-prohibited countries, unless they remain in the non-banned countries for 14 days and then perform a PCR test within a period of 72 hours from the date of taking the sample until arriving in Kuwait.

The daily said, quoting a source, that expats can enter Kuwait easily if they reside in any country that is not on the ban list for a period of 14 days, and pointed out that Dubai and Doha will be the destination for the majority of expats wishing to return to Kuwait.

There were around 27 departure and 15 arrival flights from Kuwait International Airport, which continues to operate flights coming into and out of the country, whether for citizens or expats. Around 27 flights left yesterday to several cities, most notably Istanbul, Beirut, Doha and Dubai.

 

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