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Kuwait Airport Witnesses Increase of Passengers, Flights in Jan.

Posted on: Thursday, 23 February 2006, 09:00 CST

Kuwait airport witnesses increase of passengers, flights in Jan.

KUWAIT CITY, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Kuwaiti Civil Aviation (KCA) announced here Wednesday that the Kuwait Airport witnessed an increase both in passengers and flights in January.

According to a statement of the KCA General Directorate, 476, 768 passengers departed from the airport in January this year while 455,960 arrived, showing a nine percent increase compared with the same period in 2005.

The number of flights operated from the airport also increased nine percent in January, with a total of 3,880 incoming and outgoing scheduled flights, 308 additional flights and 1,868 non- commercial flights.

The directorate attributed the increase mainly to the New Year' s and Eid holidays.

Meanwhile, the statement said that the Kuwait Airways represented 38 percent of overall traffic, while Al-Jazeera, the first Kuwaiti private airways, representing seven percent.


Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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