Kuwait issue: Airlines may reserve 200 seats

posted by   rani (111)   17 months ago (avindia.blogspot.com)

New Delhi: State-owned carriers Air India and Indian have prepared a contingency plan whereby 200 seats per day will be reserved for their Kuwait-bound passengers on flights of Gulf Air to Bahrain from July 1, in case of failure of the ongoing civil aviation bilateral talks between India and Kuwait. Kuwait has already threatened to ban Air India and Indian from flying to Kuwait from July 1 due to a dispute over the bilateral civil aviation agreement. "The state-owned carriers had approached Gulf Air which has agreed to the request for allocating 200 seats per day on its flights to Bahrain.