Min. urges extensive preps for travel season

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KUWAIT CITY, May 3, (KUNA): Touring airport preparations for the onslaught of the summer travel season, Minister of Communications and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari stressed on Tuesday the imperative to have all airport-related streamlining projects completed in record time.

This came in a press statement issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), noting that the minister examined the projects on the expansion of departure and arrival halls, and the increase in passenger service counters to more than double their previous numbers.

Furthermore, the minister looked over airport flight schedules, counseling officials to space these schedules out so that there would not be concentrations in some flight times causing passenger congestion at departure halls, said the statement.

To ease the burden of waiting for departing passengers, the (DGCA) has expanded two waiting halls for such passengers where they can wait in comfort for their departing flights, said the statement.

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