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
Check in counters
Our flight check in
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
Gates at the right wing
Gulf Air to Manila
Goingo towards the left wing gates
Bus gates downstairs
A flight to Tehran was boarding at that time
Back upstairs
Our flight arriving from Washington D.C. via Kuwait
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
1 Dinar
10 dinar
And their highest bill 20 dinar= around USD $70
Our gate area
Boarding
Push back
Take off over Manama
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
Dammam
Cheese and tomato sandwich and roast beef mini sandwiches for snack
After around half an hour we started our descent in Kuwait
Here all passengers even the ones going to D.C. had to disembark and reboard again
Kuwait airport
our flight crew going to Kuwait and switching with another set of crews
Baggage claim
Arrival hall
Some pictures of the great city of Kuwait
They have so many cats here same as Tehran
LOL :D
There are so many beach cats too who live by the beach and between rocks, they were so cute
Beautiful Kuwait Towers
Some maintenance work going on in the towers
Souq Sharq shopping centre
The beautiful Al Hamra Tower
Shopping mall under the tower
Liberation Tower
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
The luxury section of the mall
Some local show add, which I found interesting with portraits of local Kuwaiti people :)
Hope you enjoyed this FR :)
Thanks for the FR!
I didn't even know this was a fifth-freedom route operated by UA, so thank you for enlightening me.
I'm speechless, is this the same UA? Where did the food come from???? UA offers food in Y on a 400 km flight, but offers nothing on any domestic route.
It's not surprising on a flight to the US (from the Gulf no less) that passengers and aircraft are required to undergo rescreening.
Thanks for the bonus on Kuwait.
Thanks so much NGO85. I know, it's a shame that none of the domestic carriers in US and Canada offer food any more. It's very cheap IMO but nothing can be done I guess. I'm glad you liked the pictures.
Thanks for your report. I am surprised to see United on this leg and did not know they had 5th freedom right between those two cities.
The cabin looks good for this type of flight and the two sandwiches are ok even though they could be presented in a box or on a tray.
Thanks for sharing with us this unusual flight.
Food service used to be compulsory on international flights, it apparently still is in the Gulf Region;
Thanks Skyteam, I was actually surprised when they gave sandwiches since in US in flights around 5 hours they don't give anything but dry pretzel sticks and a soft drink.
Fascinating report!
Thank you Eminere :)
Thanks for this FR.
UA makes an effort on this 5th freedom flight with a real free snack.
Nice bonus of Kuwait.
Thank you KL651. I'm glad you liked the FR :)