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Air traffic temporarily suspended in Kuwait until weather improves

Published: 15 Nov 2018 - 10:53 am | Last Updated: 04 Nov 2021 - 04:29 pm
A man wearing a rain jacket walks under heavy rain at Kuwait International Airport in this still image obtained from a social media video November 14, 2018. TWITTER/@canibano32 via REUTERS

A man wearing a rain jacket walks under heavy rain at Kuwait International Airport in this still image obtained from a social media video November 14, 2018. TWITTER/@canibano32 via REUTERS

QNA

Kuwait: Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said that takeoff flights from the Kuwait International Airport have been precautionarily suspended while landing flights have been transferred to the airports of Bahrain, Al Dammam, and Dubai.

Flights coming to Kuwait's airport have been transferred to some GCC airports due to the impacts of the heavy rains on the visibility, GDCA's deputy director general for the airport affairs Fahad Al Wagyyan said in a statement carried out by Kuwait's KUNA.

Al Wagyyan explained that airlines informed passengers of the new dates for their flights.

Kuwait is currently experiencing unstable weather conditions and heavy rainfall. Forecasts expected that the weather instability would continue until Friday.