Kuwait
Kuwait, KW.
- Code
- KWI
- Position
- 29.227, 47.980
- Runway
- 3,500 m paved
- Capacity
- About 1,290 movements a week, 15 stands, terminal generation 2
- Weather
- Worst month loses about 0.7% of flights
- Confidence
- estimated (to be verified). Coordinates agree with published sources to within about 2.5 km. Other figures are estimates unless the evidence below says otherwise.
Source: Kuwait airport article: British Airways Flight 149 landed four hours after the invasion of 2 August 1990 (read). Runway 15L/33R 3,500 m present. Throughput estimated. Closed for 30 weeks by the war event.