Kuwait Airways
has filed its latest schedule update, which includes an increase in capacity from Kuwait to New York, an itinerary operated by the airline’s Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
Daily JFK flights
According to data from the aviation analytics company Cirium, Kuwait Airlines has scheduled seven weekly flights between Kuwait International Airport (KWI) and New York John F. Kennedy International Airport
(JFK).
Daily itineraries will start on March 30, 2025, with the week preceding the start of the once-per-day flights having four weekly itineraries. According to the International Air Transport Association ( IATA
), its winter season will end on March 30, 2025.
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As such, during the following summer season, which will continue until October 26, 2025, Kuwait Airways has scheduled daily flights from Kuwait to New York-JFK, with the daily itineraries possibly extending beyond October. In comparison, during the same period a year prior, the carrier had four weekly flights on the same route.
So far, data, which is available until November 2025, showed that the Kuwaiti flag carrier plans to continue operating its daily 777-300ER
flights to New York in November 2025.
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Kuwait Airways current and former US network
New York-JFK remains Kuwait Airways’ sole US destination, with the airline having served flights on the route for several decades.
In the early 2000s, Kuwait Airways also flew to Chicago O’Hare International Airport
(ORD). While at least from 2000, the airline operated two weekly flights to Chicago-O’Hare via Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
(AMS), it had begun flying on the route via Geneva Airpot (GVA) before completely stopping flights to the Windy City in October 2005.
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Similarly, Gulf Air
, another flag carrier of a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) state, had flights to New York-JFK in the 1990s. The Bahraini carrier flew to New York’s largest airport from either Bahrain International Airport (BAH), Abu Dhabi Zayed International Airport (AUH), or Doha International Airport (DIA, Qatar’s old airport, which was replaced by Hamad International Airport (DOH) in 2014) while stopping at Larnaca International Airport (LCA) for fuel.
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Flying long haul with Kuwait Airways
Nevertheless, in June 2025, during the peak summer season, Kuwait Airways has planned 93 weekly flights with its widebody aircraft, namely the Airbus A330-800
and 777-300ER, to 14 destinations across the world. (No flights with the A330-900 have been planned yet.)
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The majority of those destinations are flights to other GCC states or the broader Middle East region, including Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey.
Ch-aviation data showed that Kuwait Airways has four A330-800, one A330-900, ten 777-300ER, eight A320ceo, and nine A320neo commercial aircraft in its fleet.
Its private aircraft fleet, presumably dedicated to government officials, numbers one Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) ACJ319, two ACJ340, and one Boeing Bussines Jets (BBJ) BBJ737-900.
Kuwait Airways’ most recent addition is the A330-900, registered as 9K-APJ, which Airbus delivered to the airline on December 10.
The aircraft was part of an order that initially began as a purchase of 15 A320neo and ten A350-900s in 2014, which eventually converted into a purchase agreement for nine A320neo, six A321neo, three A321LR, four A330-800, seven A330-900, and two A350-900s.
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