Kuwait Airways booking check and check-in from India

How to look up a booking on Kuwait Airways

1. 1Go to kuwaitairways.com and open Manage booking.
2. 2Choose the Identification Type from the dropdown.
3. 3Type the booking reference.
4. 4Enter the last name and retrieve the booking, then check the names, dates and flights.
5. 5Between 24 and 3 hours before departure, check in online with the same three fields.

No Kuwait Airways fare hold: what that means

Kuwait Airways’ Manage booking, online check-in and FAQ pages show no fare hold or pay-later option. On this airline a booking is either paid and ticketed, or it is not a ticket at all.

Online check-in is limited to “a valid confirmed e-ticketed booking”, which draws the line between a reservation and a ticket clearly. A flight reservation from the desk is held without payment for a visa file. It is not e-ticketed, it cannot be checked in, and nobody can fly on it. Its life is set by the airline that holds it, so it is ordered for the day you submit.

A short check-in window and early counters in India

Kuwait Airways lets you check in online from most of its stations between 24 and 3 hours before departure. That window opens later and closes much earlier than most Gulf airlines’, so if you have not checked in by three hours before the flight, plan to do it at the airport.

Counters at Indian stations open four hours before departure at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram, three and a half hours before at Delhi, and three hours before at Chennai. All of them close one hour before departure. The check-in times page also mentions congestion at T4 in Kuwait.

Eight Indian cities and connecting through Kuwait

Kuwait Airways’ station table lists eight Indian cities: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram. Kozhikode, Kolkata and the Punjab airports are not on it, so a traveller from Amritsar or Chandigarh starts with a domestic journey to one of the eight.

Its hub is Kuwait International Airport, and it belongs to no alliance. The airline’s news page loads by script, so recent India route changes could not be checked; search your route on kuwaitairways.com for your exact dates before building a visa itinerary on it.

Kuwait’s transit rules for Indian passport holders are not covered on this page. If your itinerary connects in Kuwait, keep both flights on one booking and confirm the rule with the airline. Collecting bags and re-checking them on a separate ticket means passing immigration.

If a Kuwait Airways booking does not show

Look at the Identification Type first. Its options were not visible when this guide was researched, so if one option fails, try the others with the same reference and last name. Then check the spelling of the last name and each character of the reference.

An unpaid reservation stays only as long as the airline allows, and that includes one ordered for a visa. That is why it is ordered for the day the file goes in.

Kuwait Airways counters at Indian airports

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