Mubasher: Kuwait announced that the third phase of the grand repatriation operation will begin on Monday, 27 April, and will last for three days, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) recently reported.
The move is the third of five phases aimed at bringing Kuwaiti nationals stranded abroad amid the widespread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Explaining this, the chairman of the Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA), Sheikh Salman Humoud Al Sabah, said that 35 flights will be launched in the new phase from London and Gatwick Airport, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, New York, Moscow, Armenia, Kyiv, and Hail.
Around 8,190 Kuwaiti nationals will be evacuated during the third phase, he expected.
It is noteworthy that a total of 124 flights were operated in the first and the second phases of the repatriation flights that started on 19 April.
The first phase included 75 flights to 16 destinations, namely Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscat, Manama, Doha, Cairo, Alexandria, Amman, London, Istanbul, Ankara, Paris, and Geneva.
The second phase targeted several Arab and global destinations, including, Amman, Casablanca, Nouakchott, Istanbul, Vienna, Alexandria, Cairo, New York, Brussels, London, Paris, Manila, Bangkok, Dakar, Tunis, Malta, Beirut, Tbilisi, Baku, Mumbai, Delhi, Sarajevo, and Amsterdam.
