I was planning to book a short trip to London this month and I was checking out Kuwait Airways prices and a two-way economy ticket costs around 500KD this month. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that expensive before, does anyone know why? British Airways tickets are less than 200KD but the flight back is a red-eye-flight which I don’t want to deal with. So just curious to why the Kuwait Airways flight specifically is so crazy expensive.
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22 replies on “Why is it 500KD to fly to London this month?”
you just don’t want to say directly. Let me do it. Kuwait is not a popular destination for any airline, Kuwait airways can dictate the prices to specific cities because they are the only one flying directly, there is no competition.
Everyone knows that, why it is a surprise now?
BA are still flying to London directly. Tickets in February with Kuwait Airways are less than 200, it’s just January that is weirdly expensive so wondering if anything is happening I don’t know about
When demand is high, prices are high. And since T4 is in operation, Kuwait Airways are taking full advantage of passengers who dislike red-eye-flights. All year round I am paying extra to fly Kuwait Airways in order to avoid overnight flights. Welcome to monopoly and unfair pricing!
Flights in Feb are cheap, I’ve never paid more than like 240kd to fly to london with kuwait airways, why are you on about? I’m asking why specifically January is expensive.
That is actually reasonable mate.
For economy? For one person? When was last time you traveled, it costs less than half that on regular months
Kuwait airways pricing is like the lottery. Sometimes you win most times you lose. I once got business class return 240kd with them on a 9 hour flight because of what I think was a pricing error 🤔
Damn that’s crazy
500kd is absurd for economy. But thats the price for the flexi tickets which is essentially the full fare price.
KWI-LHR and LHR-KWI is surprisingly a very busy route and that’s because Kuwait is one of the cheapest options if you’re flying from UK to south east Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
The flight from LHR to KWI is always full of people coming from the west on their way to east Asia. This is something I’ve witnessed the many times ive flown this route.
Long live Pegasus Airlines!
Kuwait Airways flights to London are more expensive during the UK universities’ break seasons because there’s a lot of Kuwaiti students studying there coming back to Kuwait for breaks, it happens dec/jan then march/april then obviously summer which is always expensive nevertheless.
Yeah could be the reason cuz I can’t think of any other reason that would drive the prices up so much in jan
I assume this to be the case. My daughter came for the Christmas break and went yesterday back to UK. The KU tickets were crazy expensive so ended up flying her on BA.
Kuwait Airways mainly relies on transit passengers and most passengers traveling from US or UK are from India,Bangladesh or Pakistan and ppl are returning back from the Christmas holidays to UK/US hence its expensive
Ah that could be why
Demand is the reason, London is underserved from Kuwait, Huge demands this season KAC is a actually trying to get more slots and increase daily flights to LHR to 4 daily.
It mostly has to do with Christmas and New Year holiday period in UK and US. There would be lots of vacation makers connecting in Kuwait. So basically the rush on the flght may or may not be out of Kuwait but connecting passengers who may have taken the lower RBD’s well in advance.
most likely its because most of the people using kuwait airways at this time of year are kuwaiti students on scholarship (tickets paid for by the government) so the different govt depts take advantage of each other (out of one pocket, into the other)
And it will get much worse when British Airways ends its flights to/from Kuwait in April, and Kuwait Airways gets the direct route all to itself with no competition. I’m depressed just thinking about it.
me toooo…..some of my friends have already started using Qatar Airways, good connection time, and affordable etc….but obviously not the same or as convenient as a BA direct flight. So now we’ve lost KLM, Lufthansa, Air France, United, BA coming soon……wtf
Heathrow Terminal 4 now looks like a soulless midsize European airport.
I was quite surprised by this but now I know why. Traditionally KU has always been known for deeply discounted fares to UK and the US and are driven by demand from the Indian subcontinent with most Moslems from India and the subcontinent preferring to fly KU with its dry flight policy and all while the rest avoid it like the bubonic plague, choosing instead to fly Qatar, Emirates and Etihad to the UK and the US.