Kuwait Air Adds Smaller Airbus Jets in Restructured Order

  • Three A321LR jets will be used to serve mid-size destinations
  • Widebody order shuffled to reduce A350-900 commitment

A billboard for Kuwait airways, Kuwait City.

Photographer: Yasser Al-Zayat/AFP/Getty Images

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Kuwait Airways restructured its order with Airbus SE, adding longer-distance single-aisle aircraft while reducing a commitment to the largest jetliners as it adapts to post-Covid demand.

The loss-making Gulf airline added three A321LR narrowbodies, which will be used to serve mid-size destinations such as Manchester, England, from Kuwait. It also upscaled six A320neos to the bigger A321neo model, Chairman Ali Al-Dukhan said Monday.