Kuwait Airways to debut A330 ops with Rome/Paris flights

Kuwait Airways (KU, Kuwait) will deploy its first A330-200, 9K-APA (cn 1626), into revenue service on May 21 as flight KU165 Kuwait-Rome Fiumicino-Paris CDG-Kuwait. Other A330 destinations include: Chennai, Frankfurt Int'l, Geneva, and London Heathrow.

The widebody twinjet is part of group of five the carrier will lease from Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) alongside seven A320-200s. The twelve aircraft will help tide Kuwait Airways over while it awaits delivery of its new fleet of ten A350-900s, fifteen A320neos and ten B777-300(ER)s. 

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Photo:Alain Charpentier - TLS