See-Ya Kuwait

From USA Today:

"Kuwait Airways drops NYC-London route"

 

Kuwait Airways is no longer selling tickets for flights between New York's John F. Kennedy airport and London's Heathrow, after the Transportation Department threatened legal action for its refusal to sell tickets to Israelis. "Today, Kuwait Airways informed the U.S. DOT that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow," Namrata Kolachalam, a department spokeswoman, said Tuesday.  The airline didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The end of the route came after the Transportation Department investigated the airline's refusal to sell Eldad Gatt, an Israeli citizen, a ticket from JFK to Heathrow in 2013.  "It is unfortunate that Kuwait Airways has decided to suspend its service, instead of accepting Israeli citizens as passengers,” said Jeffrey Lovitky, a Washington lawyer representing Eldad Gatt, who was refused a ticket because of the policy. “This demonstrates Kuwait’s stubborn refusal to give up its boycott of Israeli citizens.” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Sept. 30 that the airline broke the law because it refuses to sell tickets to Israelis. On Oct. 29, department ordered the airline to “cease and desist from refusing to transport Israeli citizens between the U.S. and any third country where they are allowed to disembark,” according to a letter from Blane Workie, the department’s assistant general counsel for enforcement. But Kuwait Airways has said it declined to sell Gatt a ticket to avoid running afoul of Kuwaiti law, which prohibits its citizens from entering "into an agreement, personally or indirectly, with entities or persons residing in Israel, or with Israeli citizenship.”

 

^ This is a great win for the US. Kuwait openly discriminates against Israel and has called for its complete destruction (as have many Arab and Muslim countries.) The US is an all to both Kuwait and Israel and yet it took the high-road in siding with right over oil or politics. I have been to Kuwait and didn't care for the people or the land so wouldn't fly on Kuwait Airways anywhere if I can help it, but everyone else who wants to should be able to especially when flying to a civilized country like the United States. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2015/12/15/kuwait-airways-drops-nyc-london-route/77370416/