| Kuwait International Airport مطار الكويت الدولي |
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| IATA: KWI – ICAO: OKBK
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Operator | Directorate General of Civil Aviation | ||
| Serves | Kuwait City, Kuwait | ||
| Location | Al Farwaniyah Governorate, Kuwait | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 206 ft / 63 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 15R/33L | 11,155 | 3,400 | Concrete |
| 15L/33R | 11,483 | 3,500 | Asphalt |
Kuwait International Airport (IATA: KWI, ICAO: OKBK) is located in Farwaniyah, Kuwait, 15.5 kilometers (9.6 mi) south of Kuwait City. It serves as hub for Jazeera Airways and 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.
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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-storey parking structure, and an airport mall.
Kuwait International Airport can currently handle more than seven million passengers a year. A new general aviation terminal was completed in 2008 under a BOT scheme and is operated by Royal Aviation. By the end of 2008, however, this terminal was modified to handle the scheduled services of now-defunct Wataniya Airways along with general aviation traffic. The terminal was renamed as Sheikh Saad Terminal.
On October 3, 2011, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation announced that a new Foster + Partners-designed terminal will begin construction in 2012 and will increase the annual passenger handling amount to 13 million passengers in its first phase with the option of expanding to 25 million passengers. The airport has finalized formalities for the construction of the terminal, which is due to begin construction in 2012 with completion by 2016. It would be built to the south of the current terminal complex with new access routes from the Seventh Ring Road to the south of the airport compound. It is designed as a three-pointed star, with each point extending 600 meters from the star's center. Two airside hotels will form part of the new building.
The current airport is currently given a rating of three stars by Skytrax's airport grading exercise along with seven other airports.[1]
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Air Arabia | Sharjah | 1 |
| Air Arabia Egypt | Alexandria-Borg El Arab, Assiut, Sohag | 1 |
| Air India | Ahmedabad, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad | 1 |
| Air India Express | Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore | 1 |
| Air Koryo | Pyongyang | 1 |
| AlMasria Universal Airlines | Alexandria-El Nouzha, Assiut | 1 |
| Al-Naser Airlines | Baghdad, Najaf | 1 |
| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Kabul | 1 |
| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Chittagong, Dhaka | 1 |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 1 |
| Bulgaria Air | Seasonal: Bourgas, Sofia, Varna | 1 |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal: Varna | GA |
| EgyptAir | Alexandria-El Nouzha, Assiut, Cairo, Luxor, Sohag | 1 |
| Emirates | Dubai | 1 |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 1 |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | 1 |
| flydubai | Dubai | 1 |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain | 1 |
| Iran Air | Ahwaz, Isfahan, Lar, Mashhad, Shahre Kord, Shiraz | 1 |
| Iran Aseman Airlines | Ahwaz, Lamerd, Mashhad, Shiraz | 1 |
| Jazeera Airways | Aleppo, Alexandria-Borg el Arab, Amman-Queen Alia, Assiut, Bahrain, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, Dubai, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jeddah, Luxor, Mashhad, Riyadh, Sharm el-Sheikh, Sohag | 1 |
| Jet Airways | Mumbai | 1 |
| KLM | Amsterdam, Bahrain | 1 |
| Kuwait Airways | Abu Dhabi, Alexandria, Amman, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beirut, Cairo, Chennai, Colombo, Damascus, Dammam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Madina, Manila, Mumbai, Muscat, New York-JFK, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Sharm El Sheikh, Sohag, Tehran, Thiruvananthapuram | 1 |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt | 1 |
| Mahan Air | Mashhad | 1 |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 1 |
| Mihin Lanka | Colombo, Dubai | 1 |
| Nas Air | Jeddah, Madinah | 1 |
| Oman Air | Muscat | 1 |
| Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Sialkot | 1 |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 1 |
| RAK Airways | Ras al Khaimah | 1 |
| Rovos Air | Baghdad, Kandahar | 1 |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 1 |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh | 1 |
| Shaheen Air International | Lahore | 1 |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya | 1 |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo, Dubai | 1 |
| Syrian Air | Aleppo, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor | 1 |
| Tunis Air | Tunis | 1 |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 1 |
| United Airlines | Bahrain, Washington-Dulles | 1 |
| Yemenia | Sana'a | 1 |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air France Cargo | Dubai, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Cargolux | Hong Kong, Luxembourg |
| DHL Aviation | Bahrain |
| Falcon Express Cargo Airlines | Bahrain, Doha, Dubai, Riyadh |
| Swiftair | Kandahar |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | Doha |
2006-2011[3]
| Year | Commercial Aircraft | Non-Commercial Aircraft | Passengers | Freight (in metric tonnes) |
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| 2006 | 50,213 | 21,508 | 6,053,094 | 166,292 |
| 2007 | 56,987 | 26,574 | 6,910,309 | 176,203 |
| 2008 | 61,512 | 26,408 | 7,226,345 | 180,090 |
| 2009 | 78,597 | 19,963 | 8,125,747 | 197,213 |
| 2010 | 79,350 | 14,927 | 8,332,857 | 208,295 |
| Jan-Sep 2011 | 53,217 | 9,967 | 6,461,374 | 146,531 |