Kuwait Airways' New 777-300ER Is Flying To London

Ben, I had a quick glance and CMB-LHR via KWI costs 840€ (USD880), which is a bit cheaper than out of BOM

Edit: There are fares for USD770 out of CMB

More photos of the Kuwait Airways 77W from a recent JFK-KWI flight:
http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2016/12/26/inside-new-kuwait-airways-boeing-777-300er-worlds-cheapest-premium-long-haul-airline-gets-brand-new-product/

Hmm, excited to fly an airline that pulled their JFK-LHR flight rather than allow Israelis on the plane, but you don't want to fly el-al. Comfort before principles I guess.

I've been to Kuwait 8 or 10 times for business but not in the past few years. IIRC, getting a visa without a local partner to assist would have been difficult and time consuming. Certainly, I wouldn't want to spend 16-18 hours at that dumpy airport, as contemplated in those itineraries.
Maybe things are easier now in respect of a transit visa. A few reasonable SPG properties in Kuwait City, including a decent Four Points.
I would do that trip in a flash if the visa works.

Add: Now I can see that ex Colombo makes more sense with a 4 hour stop, assuming coming from the east.

I have a healthy oasis points balance. Maybe I will upgrade myself on Kwi-Fra as soon as they Change to suites in F. Can send you pics then if interested

Hey Lucky,

Weren't you wondering how you would get back from Dubai (you were considering EL AL)? You should try Kuwait Airways instead....

With all these non-ME3 middle-east airlines you should mention whether they are "dry" or not.

Being dry puts an airline on my no-fly list.

Beachfan, all airlines reserve the right to refuse passengers.

So what? That's not discrimination.

Can you fly just JFK - SNN or is that a refueling stop?

Umm... inventory does show that 5/FEB, 12/FEB, and 15/FEB onward KU 117 KWI-JFK will be operated by B777-300ER. However, there is only one booking class available for First and is "R", which only exists on 77Ws (the same goes to LHR). Somehow it cannot be combined with CAI-KWI First which offers booking class "F" and "A" only. Either it's a technical thing or the airline is really differentiating the class altogether, because one way "R" fare is significantly (about 1.5X) higher than the cheapest one way "A" fare out of KWI. I found this using Amadeus GDS. It cannot be booked on KU website at the moment because when you choose First nothing shows up. May be it's KU version of "The Residence", that's why 🙂

Just to follow up - the fare basis for the suites is R777EOW or R777ERT. As far as my research goes following routes were available for these.

KWI-LHR
KWI-FRA
KWI-CDG
KWI-JFK
KWI-DXB
KWI-BOM

The fare is exorbitantly priced around KWD 1,500 one way to KWI to Europe & JFK (and the fare to JFK is slightly cheaper than flying to LHR). Around KWD 250 one-way to DXB/BOM. The other way round would work around the same price, but no through fares for transit in KWI available yet.

I plan to travel kwi-jfk on 15 sept and return on 4th Oct.Can anyone find out if the new b777-300er will be operational on that dates or not?Amadeus shows as b777-200/300...

Kapil, Yes all old aircrafts will be phased out by July 2017 and replaced with new 777's

Beachfan, KAC decided to to drop all 5th freedom flights even flights between Muslim countries months before the Israeli passenger case as part of KAC restructuring plan, Jew passengers fly KAC all the time only Israeli passport is an issue.

Hi Jessy, and others,

Maybe the same question, but I'm planning a trip between KWI and JFK in April, is there a way to know whether the new business class will be available on that flight. I tried looking at the seat map, but it's 6 across on both aircrafts so unable to know.

Many thanks.

@ Hamada -- Six across is the new product. The old one had seven across.

@ Lucky.
Appreciate your quick response, and your website and reports have been very helpful in deciding which airline and product to fly. Keep up the good work.

I did check other routes also, and in Amadeus it gives me all 6 across in Business class (The old and new business class aircrafts). The only thing I have found out is that their new first class is 4 across (R class as @ Hiro mentioned before). That is available on the KWI-JFK flights.
1 more question that I have;
- The stop in Shannon, does that include Pre Clearance? Although the last flight with a transit through Shannon is on the 25th of March.

Many thanks in advance for your response.