Warning against issuing flight tickets below market value

KUWAIT: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) urged all travel agencies not to issue flight tickets cheaper than the usual market rates unless approved and authorized by the concerned airlines first. DGCA warned that some travel agents issue tickets for fares less than the market value without the airlines’ approval, which multiplies those agencies’ debts beyond their payment capacities. DGCA stressed that violating agencies will be fined, adding that it is keen on regulating the local aviation market and prevent unauthorized or unlicensed brokers from operating. Meanwhile, as part of its policy of supporting national labor, Kuwait Aviation Services Company (KASCO) officially announced appointing 25 citizens in various positions (engineers, mechanics, checking officers and quality control) in its facilities.

Producer sentenced

The court of cassation yesterday sentenced a popular Kuwaiti producer to 10 years in prison with labor and a KD 50,000 fine and acquitted his Iraqi partner in a case filed against them for possessing and trading in drugs. Notably, both suspects were arrested after the discovery of drugs in an apartment they had been allegedly using for ‘art production’, but which was actually used in packing and distributing the drugs the suspect had been importing concealed within cosmetics shipments.

MEW revenues

Recent statistics issued by the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) showed that the ministry’s daily revenues are KD 829,000 collected by 37 offices around the country and the main office in MEW premises in South Surra for the ministry’s public services. Statistics showed that KD 302.7 million had been collected for electricity and water consumption in 2019 including KD 99.2 million collected during the second half of the year.

The collected revenues also include insurance deposits for connecting electricity and the fees collected for municipal services. Statistics also showed that KD 216 million had been collected for the same services in 2014, KD 193 million in 2015, KD 279 million in 2016 and KD 235 million in 2017. Further, statistics showed that MEW collected a total of KD 2.3 billion in the period of 2004-2017. In a different concern, informed sources said the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) and the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) are expected to offer for public bidding a tender to hire an international consultant to prepare the documents of the Al-Zour plant project.