Kuwaiti officials ponder resuming commercial flights
Minister of Health Sheikh Dr. Basel Humoud Al-Sabah held a meeting on Thursday with officials at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, following up on the plan to re-operate commercial flights via Kuwait International Airport in August.
The rapporteur of the higher committee tasked
with resuming these flights, Eng.Saad Al-Otaibi, said in a statement to KUNA
after the meeting that the participants in the session examined final phases of
implementing the health precautions, in line with a Cabinet resolution in this
regard.
The commission, during the session chaired by
the department chairman Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, examined the
guidelines for resuming the commercial flights, in the shadow of the
coronavirus issue.
The committee briefed the ministers about
preparations, done over the past days, at the airport buildings and terminals
for resuming the commercial flights with the required health precautions for
outgoing travellers and arrivals.