Review-Kuwait Airways

From: New York, US

To: New Delhi, India

My spring semester got over. I had no plans to goto India for summer. Credit crunch in US left me no choice but to go back to India and look for internship opportunities in Investment Banking. Didn’t know East follows West!!

Ok, now straight to Kuwait Airways. A return ticket for $1000- its cheap considering my return ticket is in mid August. There’s one more airlines that provides cheap ticket, Aeroflot. But I would never want to fly that airlines just for the simple reason that it has a loooong stopover in Russia.

Kuwait Airways fly from NY to London for a technical stopover and then to Kuwait before landing IG Int Airport, Delhi. I am a veggie. So I had requested my agent to request for Vegetarian food. Don’t know whom to blame but I had to survive on the flight to London with salads and drink( no alcohol. Its Kuwait please). The best thing about Kuwait Airways is its leg space. Not even for a second I found myself trapped for 14 hours. Seats were also wide.

Technical stopover is not that technical. You have to get out of airlines and then take a full round of Heathrow and wait for half and hour before boarding. The best part about is that you get to stretch your legs and relieve yourself from sticking to seat with seatbelt on. The worst part is you didn’t know it would be such a long technical stop (Atleast I didn’t know).

The food was not much to my delight. Even their menu was not that great. They serve two times and it repeats again from London to Kuwait. Their menu included Chicken Spaghetti, one sweet, salad, burger. Even if I am a vegetarian, I could see many not enjoying the food. Overall a bad experience in food on flight from NY-Kuwait. When we landed Kuwait, I wanted to satisfy my hunger with some delicious pizza or veggie burger. To my surprise I saw McDonalds and Pizza Hut. How would you feel if you see these two? I was excited. The Airport was not that big. So had nothing much to do except for relishing Veggie Burger with fries and coke and surfing Internet. Yes, they have wi-fi, for FREE. I couldn’t have asked for more to spend my 3 hours. Security check to flight to India was a breeze. They don’t do any security check. Its just a mere formality. This flight had good food and menu was prepared according to Indian taste. Being a vegetarian I was served dal, kadi and rice. I didn’t mind eating that also even after eating stomach full of burger in McD.

Inflight entertainment system sucks. I think they are vintage screens with some funny mechanism to adjust screen. I didn’t care scrolling through channels and movies as I had my i-pod with me. All the screens were flashing on and off. I think their circuits had loose connection! If you are not carrying an i-pod with you I would recommend to take sleeping pills.

After reading all this what do you expect of Air hostess? Don’t worry they were not as bad as other things. But I would definitely comment on Air hostess that were on flight from Kuwait to Delhi. How did Kuwait manage to find them? I am sure they organized a talent hunt in and out of South Indian Village for Air hostess to India. But still it was better than stinging stewards in Air India!!!

Overall, it was not a bad experience as I didn’t want inflight entertainment, I was, not for a moment hungry for food and was ready to for 2 stops(kick your agent’s ass if he says 1. kick yourself if you booked online).

Why complain when you gave priority to cost effective airlines and not to great service airlines.

3 out of 5