Kuwait International Airport

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Kuwait International Airport
IATA: KWI – ICAO: OKBK
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Directorate General of Civil Aviation
Location		Kuwait City
Elevation AMSL		206 ft / 63 m
Coordinates		29°13′35″N 47°58′08″E / 29.22639, 47.96889
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
15R/33L	11,155	3,400	Concrete
15L/33R	11,483	3,500	Asphalt

Kuwait International Airport (IATA: KWI, ICAO: OKBK) is located in Farwaniya, Kuwait, 16 kilometers (approximately 10 miles) south of Kuwait City. It is the hub of Kuwait Airways. A portion of the airport complex is designated as Al Mubarak Air Base, which contains the headquarters of the Kuwait Air Force, as well as the Kuwait Air Force Museum.

The airport underwent a massive renovation and expansion project from 1999-2001, in which the former parking lot was cleared and a terminal expansion was built. This incorporated new check-in areas, a new entrance to the airport, the construction of a multi-story parking structure, and an airport mall with brand stores such as Jansport, Debenham's, and a Virgin Megastore. A food court forms an integral part of this expansion, with a Pizza Express and Starbucks Coffee as well as fast-food outlets such as Fuddrucker's and KFC.

Kuwait International Airport can currently handle six million passengers a year. Recently, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has announced that a new terminal will begin construction, and will increase the annual passenger handling amount to fourteen million. Terminal II is due for completion by the end of 2010. It is currently given a rating of three stars by Skytrax's airport grading exercise along with seven other airports.^[1]

1 Airlines and destinations
- 1.1 Cargo airlines
- 1.2 New airlines and routes
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Air Arabia (Sharjah)
Air China (Beijing, Karachi)
Air India (Cochin, Kozhikode, Mumbai)
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, Kozhikode, Mumbai)
Air Slovakia (Bratislava) [seasonal]
Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul, Doha)
Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Dhaka)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
Bulgaria Air (Sofia) [seasonal]
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta [begins November 7])
EgyptAir (Alexandria, Assiut, Cairo, Luxor)
Emirates (Dubai)
Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Riyadh)
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
Gulf Air (Bahrain)
Iran Air (Ahwaz, Isfahan, Mashad, Shiraz, Shahre Kord, Kish, Lar, Bushehr)
Iran Asseman Airlines (Ahwaz, Lamerd, Mashad, Shiraz)
Jazeera Airways (Alexandria, Amman, Assiut, Bahrain, Beirut, Damascus, Delhi, Dubai, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kochi, Larnaca, Luxor, Male, Mashad, Mumbai, Muscat, Riyadh, Salalah, Shiraz, Tehran)
Jet Airways (Delhi, Kochi)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam, Muscat)
Kuwait Airways (Abu Dhabi, Ahmedabad, Alexandria, Amman, Assiut, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Bangalore, Beirut, Cairo, Chennai, Colombo, Casablanca, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Luxor, Manila, Mumbai, Malaga, Muscat, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Peshawar, Riyadh, Rome Fiumicino, Sharm El Sheikh, Surabaya, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Trivandrum)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur) [seasonal]
Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
Olympic Airlines (Athens, Dubai)
Oman Air (Dubai, Muscat)
Pakistan International Airlines ( Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Sialkot)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Royal Jordanian (Amman)
Safi Airways (Kabul, Frankfurt]]
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh, Madeenah)
Shaheen Air International (Lahor, Bandar Abbas)
SriLankan Airlines (Colombo, Dubai)
Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus)
Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai)
Tunis Air (Bahrain, Tunis)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
United Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
Yemenia (Doha,Sanaa)