According to the press service of the Ministry of Transport, until now, flights between Uzbekistan and Kuwait have been carried out in accordance with an agreement signed in 1994, according to which each side has the right to fly only one airline. Considering that new airlines have been created in recent years on the territory of both countries, it has become necessary to revise the terms of this agreement in order to establish air transportation of private airlines in new directions, complete liberalization of the aviation market, as well as create broad opportunities for business entities.
Following the negotiations held by the delegation headed by the Director of the Agency "Uzaviation" with the leadership of the Government of Kuwait Aviation to discuss air traffic between the two countries and review the conditions, the heads of aviation governments of the two countries initialed the text of a new Agreement on air traffic, developed in a new edition by the Ministries of Transport of Uzbekistan and Kuwait and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries, including new conditions.
The new agreement includes the terms of the new deal, and also removes the restriction that only one airline designated on each side could operate flights between the two countries.
During 2023, more than 95 thousand air passengers from Uzbekistan made the Umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia via Kuwait, most of them made short-term tourism in Kuwait. About 1,000 tourists visited Uzbekistan from Kuwait, most of whom left for Osh (Kyrgyzstan) for various purposes after a short-term tourism. After the analysis and study, in order to create wide opportunities for direct flights of Kuwaiti citizens to the cities of Uzbekistan, 12 flights per week between Kuwait and Osh city, as well as to create wider opportunities for "pilgrimage tourism", increase weekly flights from each side to 14 flights (total 28), as well as lifting restrictions on the number of cities that allows flights from all airports in Uzbekistan to Kuwait.
The agreements reached will serve as a basis for the formation of passenger traffic on new international routes at regional airports of Uzbekistan, as well as for attracting even more tourists within the framework of "pilgrimage tourism" from abroad by the Committee on Tourism on behalf of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
