Kuwait issue: Airlines may reserve 200 seats

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.
This will be for passengers who are already booked on Air India and Indian flights to Kuwait from July1. This option will be exercised only if the bilateral talks with Kuwait fail," said a Civil aviation ministry official. Officials of Air India confirmed that the airline had made arrangements with Gulf Air for transporting its Kuwait-bound passengers from July 1 in case talks with Kuwait fail.
Gulf Air is the state-owned airline of two other Gulf countries-Bahrain and Oman.
28/06/07 Sridhar Kumaraswami/The Asian Age

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