Review of United flight Manama Kuwait City in Economy

Airline United
Flight UA981
Class Economy
Seat 44A
Aircraft Boeing 777-200
Flight time 01:10
Take-off 13 Jan 15, 22:00
Arrival at 13 Jan 15, 23:10
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whitelight44
Published on 3rd March 2015
Hi all,

This is about my trip back home to Iran and to the Arabic countries in the Persian Gulf area, you can see all parts here:


Toronto to Frankfurt- Air Canada: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9253.html
Frankfurt to Tehran- Lufthansa- Tehran Pictures: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9322.html
Tehran- Shiraz- Tehran- Mahan Air: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9666.html
Tehran to Kuwait- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9383.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9456.html
Dubai to Doha- Qatar Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9501.html
Doha to Bahrain- British Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9519.html
Bahrain to Kuwait- United Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9554.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Fly Dubai: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9600.html
Dubai to Vienna- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9622.html
Vienna to Toronto- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9629.html

Now we are going to Kuwait city via the 5th freedom flight of United Airlines from Manama to Washington D.C. via Kuwait city.

Manama's airport curbside

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Check in counters

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Our flight check in

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Past passport control and airside

The shops are all at the central part of the terminal and it has a right and left wing with gates

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Gates at the right wing

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Gulf Air to Manila

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Goingo towards the left wing gates

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Bus gates downstairs

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A flight to Tehran was boarding at that time

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Back upstairs

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Our flight arriving from Washington D.C. via Kuwait

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At the meantime we went to change some money for Kuwaiti Dinar

Kuwait's Dinar is the strongest currency in the world 1 Kuwait Dinar= $3.50 USD

1/2 Dinar bill = $1.75 USD

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1 Dinar

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10 dinar

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And their highest bill 20 dinar= around USD $70

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Our gate area

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Boarding

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Push back

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Take off over Manama

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To the left is Bahrain, the centre is King Fahad Causeway that connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and to the left is Saudi Arabia, the city of Dammam

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Dammam

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Cheese and tomato sandwich and roast beef mini sandwiches for snack

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After around half an hour we started our descent in Kuwait

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Here all passengers even the ones going to D.C. had to disembark and reboard again

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Kuwait airport

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our flight crew going to Kuwait and switching with another set of crews

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Baggage claim

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Arrival hall

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Some pictures of the great city of Kuwait

They have so many cats here same as Tehran

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LOL :D

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There are so many beach cats too who live by the beach and between rocks, they were so cute

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Beautiful Kuwait Towers

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Some maintenance work going on in the towers

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Souq Sharq shopping centre

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The beautiful Al Hamra Tower

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Shopping mall under the tower

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Liberation Tower

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The amazing Avenues Mall- This is the best mall I have ever seen in any city and super huge. It has around 900 stores. A bit less than Dubai mall but twice the length of Dubai Mall. It spans for 2 big city blocks, you can see how huge it is by the picture below from Google

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The luxury section of the mall

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Some local show add, which I found interesting with portraits of local Kuwaiti people :)

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Hope you enjoyed this FR :)














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Verdict

United

7.9/10
Cabin7.0
Cabin crew8.5
Entertainment/wifi8.0
Meal/catering8.0

Manama - BAH

7.5/10
Efficiency8.0
Access7.0
Services7.0
Cleanliness8.0

Kuwait City - KWI

8.8/10
Efficiency8.0
Access9.0
Services9.0
Cleanliness9.0

Conclusion

Overall a nice flight with United. The seats were comfortable, but the legroom could be better. The crew were very nice and friendly. Bahrain airport was a small and old looking airport that does the job right.

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