KUWAIT CITY, June 10, (Agencies): Serious steps have been taken to privatize Kuwait Airways in the next period, as the government has given the Minister of Communi-cations Engineer Salem Al-Othaina the green light to decide on privatization law without delay, reports Al-Nahar daily quoting sources.
The same sources added that Al-Othaina has presented a detailed explanation of the machinery of privatization and its implementation, stressing that the current board of Kuwait Airways will be changed after privatization law has been approved by the National Assembly, whereas the Minister of Communications will form a new board.

Sources have said the need to facilitate the procedure of privatizing Kuwait Airways due to technical difficulty it faces, indicating the Kuwaiti aircraft needs restoration or new ones must be procured to meet international standards.
Meanwhile, Kuwait Airways hopes its newly-adopted e-booking service, which include travel plus lodgings packages, will raise sales considerably by 100pct in its first year of implementation.
At the launch ceremony of the new service, head of sales and marketing at Kuwait Airways Abdallah Al-Qaisi told reporters that the airline expects its yearly turnover to increase from KD 5-10 million.

The services will add to others already provided, including the First and Business Class’ Oasis Club Lounge, among others. The new packages are being introduced under ISO aviation standards and in collaboration with Dubai-based leading aviation IT solution provider, Mercator.
The service will be open to passengers in its initial stage to grow broader to include agents and destinations in its second.
Internet sales so far for the company only account for 10 pct, and the airline intend to twofold this figure in the future.