Kuwait threatens to stop India flights

Kuwait has threatened to stop all its flights to India from July 1 in protest against New Delhi's alleged backtracking of its commitments in the bilateral aviation agreement between both countries, revealed the Kuwaiti Arabic daily, Al Watan. This could disrupt the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers during this peak summer season. The decision could also affect the services of India's national carriers Air India and Indian to Kuwait. According to Al Watan, the threat has been made by the civil aviation authorities in protest against the Airports Authority of India (AAI)'s denial of a Kuwaiti request to increase the weekly seat capacities of Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) and Jazeera Airways between Kuwait and India. Kuwait has a remarkably huge Indian expatriate population of 520,000, which is larger than those in some other GCC countries.

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