Kuwait International Airport (KWI)
A working profile of Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait, Kuwait: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Kuwait International Airport
- Serves: Kuwait, Kuwait
- Coordinates: 29.2266, 47.9689
- Elevation: 206 ft
- Time zone: Asia/Kuwait
Kuwait International Airport sits inside the air network of Kuwait. It shows 120 distinct scheduled departures across 57 destinations and 42 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from KWI
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMM | King Fahd International Airport | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | KWI→DMM | 6 |
| HBE | Borg El Arab International Airport | Alexandria | Egypt | KWI→HBE | 6 |
| JED | King Abdulaziz International Airport | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | KWI→JED | 5 |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi International Airport | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | KWI→AUH | 4 |
| DXB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | KWI→DXB | 4 |
| BAH | Bahrain International Airport | Bahrain | Bahrain | KWI→BAH | 4 |
| RUH | King Khaled International Airport | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | KWI→RUH | 4 |
| SAW | Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | KWI→SAW | 4 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | KWI→LHR | 3 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | KWI→AMS | 3 |
| MHD | Mashhad International Airport | Mashhad | Iran | KWI→MHD | 3 |
| ADD | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | KWI→ADD | 3 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | KWI→DOH | 3 |
| AMM | Queen Alia International Airport | Amman | Jordan | KWI→AMM | 3 |
| BEY | Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport | Beirut | Lebanon | KWI→BEY | 3 |
| CAI | Cairo International Airport | Cairo | Egypt | KWI→CAI | 3 |
| HMB | Sohag International Airport | Sohag | Egypt | KWI→HMB | 3 |
| CMB | Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport | Colombo | Sri Lanka | KWI→CMB | 3 |
| LHE | Alama Iqbal International Airport | Lahore | Pakistan | KWI→LHE | 3 |
| BOM | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai | India | KWI→BOM | 2 |
| FCO | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport | Rome | Italy | KWI→FCO | 2 |
| DAC | Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport | Dhaka | Bangladesh | KWI→DAC | 2 |
| AWZ | Ahwaz Airport | Ahwaz | Iran | KWI→AWZ | 2 |
| SYZ | Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib International Airport | Shiraz | Iran | KWI→SYZ | 2 |
| DWC | Al Maktoum International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | KWI→DWC | 2 |
| LXR | Luxor International Airport | Luxor | Egypt | KWI→LXR | 2 |
| NJF | Al Najaf International Airport | Najaf | Iraq | KWI→NJF | 2 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | KWI→FRA | 2 |
| IST | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | KWI→IST | 2 |
| MCT | Muscat International Airport | Muscat | Oman | KWI→MCT | 2 |
| MED | Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport | Madinah | Saudi Arabia | KWI→MED | 2 |
| AMD | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Ahmedabad | India | KWI→AMD | 1 |
| GOI | Dabolim Airport | Goa | India | KWI→GOI | 1 |
| CGP | Shah Amanat International Airport | Chittagong | Bangladesh | KWI→CGP | 1 |
| LFM | Lamerd Airport | Lamerd | Iran | KWI→LFM | 1 |
| KBL | Hamid Karzai International Airport | Kabul | Afghanistan | KWI→KBL | 1 |
| SHJ | Sharjah International Airport | Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | KWI→SHJ | 1 |
| IFN | Esfahan Shahid Beheshti International Airport | Esfahan | Iran | KWI→IFN | 1 |
| LRR | Lar Airport | Lar | Iran | KWI→LRR | 1 |
| CCJ | Calicut International Airport | Calicut | India | KWI→CCJ | 1 |
| RIY | Mukalla International Airport | Mukalla | Yemen | KWI→RIY | 1 |
| ATZ | Assiut International Airport | Asyut | Egypt | KWI→ATZ | 1 |
| BKK | Suvarnabhumi Airport | Bangkok | Thailand | KWI→BKK | 1 |
| COK | Cochin International Airport | Kochi | India | KWI→COK | 1 |
| DEL | Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi | India | KWI→DEL | 1 |
| IKA | Imam Khomeini International Airport | Tehran | Iran | KWI→IKA | 1 |
| ISB | New Islamabad International Airport | Islamabad | Pakistan | KWI→ISB | 1 |
| JFK | John F Kennedy International Airport | New York | United States | KWI→JFK | 1 |
| KUL | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | KWI→KUL | 1 |
| MAA | Chennai International Airport | Madras | India | KWI→MAA | 1 |
| TRV | Trivandrum International Airport | Trivandrum | India | KWI→TRV | 1 |
| SSH | Sharm El Sheikh International Airport | Sharm El Sheikh | Egypt | KWI→SSH | 1 |
| PEW | Peshawar International Airport | Peshawar | Pakistan | KWI→PEW | 1 |
| SKT | Sialkot Airport | Sialkot | Pakistan | KWI→SKT | 1 |
| TUN | Tunis Carthage International Airport | Tunis | Tunisia | KWI→TUN | 1 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | KWI→IAD | 1 |
| TIF | Ta’if Regional Airport | Taif | Saudi Arabia | KWI→TIF | 1 |
Airlines operating at KWI
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from KWI |
|---|---|---|---|
| KU | Kuwait Airways | Kuwait | 33 |
| J9 | Jazeera Airways | Kuwait | 15 |
| IR | Iran Air | Iran | 5 |
| MS | Egyptair | Egypt | 5 |
| EP | Iran Aseman Airlines | Iran | 4 |
| SV | Saudi Arabian Airlines | Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| XY | Nas Air | Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| PK | Pakistan International Airlines | Pakistan | 3 |
| 9W | Jet Airways | India | 2 |
| AF | Air France | France | 2 |
| AI | Air India Limited | India | 2 |
| AZ | Alitalia | Italy | 2 |
| BG | Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Bangladesh | 2 |
| DL | Delta Air Lines | United States | 2 |
| FG | Ariana Afghan Airlines | Afghanistan | 2 |
| FZ | Fly Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| IY | Yemenia | Yemen | 2 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 2 |
| LH | Lufthansa Cargo | Germany | 2 |
| TK | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 2 |
| UA | United Airlines | United States | 2 |
| AA | American Airlines | United States | 1 |
| BA | British Airways | United Kingdom | 1 |
| E5 | Air Arabia Egypt | Egypt | 1 |
| EK | Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| EO | Express One International | United States | 1 |
| ET | Ethiopian Airlines | Ethiopia | 1 |
| EY | Etihad Airways | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| G9 | Air Arabia | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| GF | Gulf Air Bahrain | Bahrain | 1 |
| IX | Air India Express | India | 1 |
| ME | Middle East Airlines | Lebanon | 1 |
| MJ | L | Argentina | 1 |
| NL | Shaheen Air International | Pakistan | 1 |
| NP | Nile Air | Egypt | 1 |
| PC | Pegasus Airlines | Turkey | 1 |
| QR | Qatar Airways | Qatar | 1 |
| RJ | Royal Jordanian | Jordan | 1 |
| SA | South African Airways | South Africa | 1 |
| TU | Tunisair | Tunisia | 1 |
| UL | SriLankan Airlines | Sri Lanka | 1 |
| WY | Oman Air | Oman | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into KWI typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMM | King Fahd International Airport | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 6 |
| HBE | Borg El Arab International Airport | Alexandria | Egypt | 6 |
| AUH | Abu Dhabi International Airport | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | 5 |
| JED | King Abdulaziz International Airport | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 5 |
| DXB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 4 |
| BAH | Bahrain International Airport | Bahrain | Bahrain | 4 |
| RUH | King Khaled International Airport | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 4 |
| SAW | Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 4 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | 3 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 3 |
| MHD | Mashhad International Airport | Mashhad | Iran | 3 |
| AMM | Queen Alia International Airport | Amman | Jordan | 3 |
| BEY | Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport | Beirut | Lebanon | 3 |
| CAI | Cairo International Airport | Cairo | Egypt | 3 |
| HMB | Sohag International Airport | Sohag | Egypt | 3 |
| CMB | Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 3 |
| LHE | Alama Iqbal International Airport | Lahore | Pakistan | 3 |
| BOM | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai | India | 2 |
| FCO | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport | Rome | Italy | 2 |
| DAC | Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2 |
| AWZ | Ahwaz Airport | Ahwaz | Iran | 2 |
| SYZ | Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib International Airport | Shiraz | Iran | 2 |
| ADD | Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | 2 |
| DWC | Al Maktoum International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| SAH | Sana'a International Airport | Sanaa | Yemen | 2 |
| LXR | Luxor International Airport | Luxor | Egypt | 2 |
| NJF | Al Najaf International Airport | Najaf | Iraq | 2 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | 2 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 2 |
| IST | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 2 |
| MCT | Muscat International Airport | Muscat | Oman | 2 |
| AMD | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Ahmedabad | India | 1 |
| GOI | Dabolim Airport | Goa | India | 1 |
| LFM | Lamerd Airport | Lamerd | Iran | 1 |
| KBL | Hamid Karzai International Airport | Kabul | Afghanistan | 1 |
| SHJ | Sharjah International Airport | Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| IFN | Esfahan Shahid Beheshti International Airport | Esfahan | Iran | 1 |
| LRR | Lar Airport | Lar | Iran | 1 |
| CCJ | Calicut International Airport | Calicut | India | 1 |
| RIY | Mukalla International Airport | Mukalla | Yemen | 1 |
| ATZ | Assiut International Airport | Asyut | Egypt | 1 |
| BKK | Suvarnabhumi Airport | Bangkok | Thailand | 1 |
| COK | Cochin International Airport | Kochi | India | 1 |
| DEL | Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi | India | 1 |
| IKA | Imam Khomeini International Airport | Tehran | Iran | 1 |
| ISB | New Islamabad International Airport | Islamabad | Pakistan | 1 |
| JFK | John F Kennedy International Airport | New York | United States | 1 |
| KUL | Kuala Lumpur International Airport | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 1 |
| MAA | Chennai International Airport | Madras | India | 1 |
| TRV | Trivandrum International Airport | Trivandrum | India | 1 |
| SSH | Sharm El Sheikh International Airport | Sharm El Sheikh | Egypt | 1 |
| PEW | Peshawar International Airport | Peshawar | Pakistan | 1 |
| SKT | Sialkot Airport | Sialkot | Pakistan | 1 |
| TUN | Tunis Carthage International Airport | Tunis | Tunisia | 1 |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington | United States | 1 |
| MED | Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport | Madinah | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| TIF | Ta’if Regional Airport | Taif | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from KWI on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list KWI to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat KWI as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.