Kuwait Airways
But now I know why we should AVOID them. 
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Doesn't matter about the unifroms; Kuwait City is the pits making Lagos seem civilised. KU are not that bad a carrier once they can get some new equipment. The route structure is a bit of a mish mash with no strategy. Kuwait City has some life but really avoid at all costs.
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Hey!
From what ive read of Kuwait Airways, they are no Emirates or Gulf air, but they do have a lot of heritage and history in the middle east ( they were one of the first middle eastern airlines to start up! ops started first in 1954!) however in recent years they have been surpassed by the new kids on the block ( Emirates,Gulf Air, Qatar Airways and Ethiad) and it seems they're service simply cant compare to the high standard offered by these airlines!
I believe that the airline employs a lot of people from eastern european countries ( I know there are a lot of Bulgarian cabin crew) so obviously working for Kuwait Airways has at least some redeeming features!
All in all id say its up to you if you wanted to go, but in my opinion, if I wanted to work for a middle eastern airline, I would stick to Emirates or Qatar Airways etc.. where you can be assured you will be looked after reasonably well!
Kuwait is supposed to be a lovely place to visit though!
From what ive read of Kuwait Airways, they are no Emirates or Gulf air, but they do have a lot of heritage and history in the middle east ( they were one of the first middle eastern airlines to start up! ops started first in 1954!) however in recent years they have been surpassed by the new kids on the block ( Emirates,Gulf Air, Qatar Airways and Ethiad) and it seems they're service simply cant compare to the high standard offered by these airlines!
I believe that the airline employs a lot of people from eastern european countries ( I know there are a lot of Bulgarian cabin crew) so obviously working for Kuwait Airways has at least some redeeming features!
All in all id say its up to you if you wanted to go, but in my opinion, if I wanted to work for a middle eastern airline, I would stick to Emirates or Qatar Airways etc.. where you can be assured you will be looked after reasonably well!
Kuwait is supposed to be a lovely place to visit though!
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Kuwait Airways
Anyone attended KU recruitment for cabin crew? I've tried to search around for info with no success. Would appreciate if you dont mind to share with us the details. Thanks!
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Horrific
Male cabin(read LOCAL/Arab crew)chat and do ZERO..females run around like mad dogs trying to do service.
Who ever instructs safety video manual demo needs to be sacked now.
What a shambles of an airline esp considering Kuwait is one the wealthiest countires in the world!
Who ever instructs safety video manual demo needs to be sacked now.
What a shambles of an airline esp considering Kuwait is one the wealthiest countires in the world!
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Kuwait Airways was founded in 1954, so it's hitting 54 next year. to date, we have 17 aircrafts and a pathetic 37 destinations. in the entirety of Europe, the airline flies to FIVE destinations: Geneva, Rome, Paris, London and Frankfurt. for comparison, Emirates flies to six destination in the UNITED KINGDOM alone, more than Kuwait Airways on an entire continent.
our fleet is, simply, miserable. seventeen aircrafts that have been through Hell and high water, and yet, nobody seems to refurbish them or give them an urgently-needed revamp/upgrade. Emirates currently has 93 aircrafts in their fleet, with another 96 on order, the first of which enter their system in October this year. by 2015, if this make-believe deal even goes through, we'll have 55. by 2015, Emirates should have well over 130 aircrafts. problems on our fleet include: seats that don't recline, faulty televisions (oh god... all the damn time), old toilets, stained seating and carpeting, dirty pillowcases... it goes on. i'm personally getting VERY sick of the blue-and-green color scheme, the dark blue carpet, the sickening blue in the toilets, the mind-warping wallpaper on the barriers, and everything that goes along with each aircraft. for a rich country with sky-high assets like Kuwait, one can assume that we can invest in having a kickass airline.
and then there's the problem of SERVICE, the little things that set an airline apart. Kuwait Airways' service is, without hyperbole, the WORST i have encountered anywhere. Qatar Airways' is a legend, Emirates isn't all that great but passable, Etihad Airways was fantastic, Gulf Air was great, Saudi Arabian was decent, and i haven't flown Oman Air yet. how can an entire staff body be so negative? condescending, obnoxious, not-in-the-mood, and overall horrible. when i was flying from Kuwait to New York City in first class (where service is supposed to be good), my seat didn't recline. a thirteen-and-a-half hour flight with an unreclining seat = utter nightmare. i asked a staff member to look at it, he asked me (get this) if i wanted to be moved to an empty seat in the last row in Economy (jerk.). whatever, flight passed, it sucked. from Kuwait to Cairo, the female staff members were too busy flirting with the male passenger in front of me, blocking the aisle and ignoring all other passenger requests. true, there are some good ones, but in a sea of people not in the mood to do their jobs properly, it's not a great reflection.
other airlines expand into new markets, while we SHUT DOWN. 37 destinations in 53 years. Etihad Airways launched in November 2003, and they have a fleet of 20 and 35 destinations. by 2010, they'll have 70. that's almost ten new destinations A YEAR. since 2000, Kuwait Airways stopped flights to Malaga, Casablanca, Prague, Karachi, Amsterdam, and Athens. the Chairman's constant blather of expansion, i feel, is nothing but a pile of inflated crap. Australia, a lot of Asia, and North America? pipe dream. they're reinstating flights to Kuala Lumpur after what, two failed attempts? and now they want to head to China. good god.
how the HELL does Kuwait Airways win all those airline awards, anyway? bribery?
in the booming Middle Eastern market, Kuwait's falling behind in everything. i'm not gonna go into the logistics and details of it all, but it's evident in everything we do. throwing a few new hotels here and there won't attract tourists, no matter how much we want to believe that.
(The above was written by kuwaiti_patriot on April 15th, 2007)
our fleet is, simply, miserable. seventeen aircrafts that have been through Hell and high water, and yet, nobody seems to refurbish them or give them an urgently-needed revamp/upgrade. Emirates currently has 93 aircrafts in their fleet, with another 96 on order, the first of which enter their system in October this year. by 2015, if this make-believe deal even goes through, we'll have 55. by 2015, Emirates should have well over 130 aircrafts. problems on our fleet include: seats that don't recline, faulty televisions (oh god... all the damn time), old toilets, stained seating and carpeting, dirty pillowcases... it goes on. i'm personally getting VERY sick of the blue-and-green color scheme, the dark blue carpet, the sickening blue in the toilets, the mind-warping wallpaper on the barriers, and everything that goes along with each aircraft. for a rich country with sky-high assets like Kuwait, one can assume that we can invest in having a kickass airline.
and then there's the problem of SERVICE, the little things that set an airline apart. Kuwait Airways' service is, without hyperbole, the WORST i have encountered anywhere. Qatar Airways' is a legend, Emirates isn't all that great but passable, Etihad Airways was fantastic, Gulf Air was great, Saudi Arabian was decent, and i haven't flown Oman Air yet. how can an entire staff body be so negative? condescending, obnoxious, not-in-the-mood, and overall horrible. when i was flying from Kuwait to New York City in first class (where service is supposed to be good), my seat didn't recline. a thirteen-and-a-half hour flight with an unreclining seat = utter nightmare. i asked a staff member to look at it, he asked me (get this) if i wanted to be moved to an empty seat in the last row in Economy (jerk.). whatever, flight passed, it sucked. from Kuwait to Cairo, the female staff members were too busy flirting with the male passenger in front of me, blocking the aisle and ignoring all other passenger requests. true, there are some good ones, but in a sea of people not in the mood to do their jobs properly, it's not a great reflection.
other airlines expand into new markets, while we SHUT DOWN. 37 destinations in 53 years. Etihad Airways launched in November 2003, and they have a fleet of 20 and 35 destinations. by 2010, they'll have 70. that's almost ten new destinations A YEAR. since 2000, Kuwait Airways stopped flights to Malaga, Casablanca, Prague, Karachi, Amsterdam, and Athens. the Chairman's constant blather of expansion, i feel, is nothing but a pile of inflated crap. Australia, a lot of Asia, and North America? pipe dream. they're reinstating flights to Kuala Lumpur after what, two failed attempts? and now they want to head to China. good god.
how the HELL does Kuwait Airways win all those airline awards, anyway? bribery?
in the booming Middle Eastern market, Kuwait's falling behind in everything. i'm not gonna go into the logistics and details of it all, but it's evident in everything we do. throwing a few new hotels here and there won't attract tourists, no matter how much we want to believe that.
(The above was written by kuwaiti_patriot on April 15th, 2007)
