This news is a few weeks old but it just popped up on my Linkedin feed now and it bothered me.
Emirates and Kuwait Airways have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to progress with an interline agreement, enabling more flight choices for customers travelling to Dubai and beyond.
Can someone tell me what the benefit of this is? Emirates already flies to Kuwait so I can just book flights with them instead of going through Kuwait Airways. Couldn’t Kuwait Airways sign a deal with Lufthansa, or British Airways, or maybe even United Airlines. Imagine being able to fly to Kuwait – New York – LA…
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I’m not really sure about that stuff but doesn’t that mean people would be boarding the plane to dubai in the new T4 instead of that god awful old terminal? If so then I think it’d be great in that regard at least.
I’d rather deal with the shitty airport than deal with the shitty customs at T4
This is just an addition to a long list of airlines Kuwait Airways interlines or codeshares with. Kuwait Airways already has an interline agreement with United. They also do with many other airlines. You can check your bag all the way through to LA from Kuwait. You can then fly Kuwait Airways to New York and connect on to United with the luggage ticketed all the way through. It doesn’t help as much though, because you still need to collect your luggage and clear US customs and immigration first in New York. Also, United currently only flies from their hub at Newark rather than JFK.
I’d rather take the trouble on emirates website and travel in peace than go through Kuwait Airways, I feel you mark on this, I don’t travel as much as you but whenever I do I feel it
That’s probably why all the other international carriers stop going here, so that Kuwait Airways can take all the profits! 👀
That’s probably bad news for us since the price of the Kuwait airways tickets to dubai were at least 10-20 kd cheaper than emirates or fly dubai.