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UAKK & KORWA meets MP shri nalin kumar kateel seeking his support for restoration of KUWAIT – MANGALORE FLIGHTS

Mangalore, July 3, 2014: A delegation from United Associations of Karnataka Kuwait (UAKK),  and Konkan Overseas Returnees Welfare Association (KORWA) visited  Mr Naleen Kumar Kateel, Member of Parliament, Govt of India,  on July 03, 2014, at his office in Mangalore and requested his intervention with  aviation ministry of India in regard to the restoration of direct flights to Kuwait – Mangalore sector.
The delegation said that more than 1,30,000 Kuwait-bound passengers from Mangalore, coastal Karnataka and Northern parts of Kerala are put to untold hardships and their flying time  now has been extended from 4 to 12 hours since Air India Express wrapped up their flight services to Kuwait - Mangalore sector from February 15 this year. The plight of the aged and families with small kids has become miserable as they have to transit through Mumbai or Bangalore.

The delegation stated that all the flights to Kozhikode and Kochi are operating as usual. AIE would have continued the Kuwait/Mangalore/Kozhikode flight and coud have looked at other possible options, so that the travel hardships of Kuwait bound passengers from coastal Karnataka  could have been avoided. The delegation wondered whether the flight destinations were changed intentionally from Kuwait/Mangalore/Kozhikode to Kuwait/Kozhikode/Kochi to prove the point of lack of load so that the flight could be cancelled under pressure from certain lobbies.

Suspension of the KUWAIT – MANGALORE flightS HAS CAUSED HARDSHIPS TO THOUSANDS OF NRIs from coastal Karnataka & northern kerala and the delegation quested shri Naleen Kumar Kateel to kindly look into this matter and put pressure on Civil Aviation Ministry  to restore the Air India Express services or any other private airlines to introduce  their flights as soon as possible, to ensure that the region and its people do not suffer on account on this sudden withdrawal of the  Mangalore Kuwait flight services.

The delegation included KORWA President Louis Lobo, Vice President Elias Sanctis, UAKK chief coordinator Hasan Yusuf, , Archie Menezes, S.M. Farooq KKMA Co coordinator, Jessie Pinto, David D Souza, John Tauro , Gretta Gomes ,Dev Kumar and others.

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