
Kuwait Airways privatization by the government will take place in March 2011. (photo: Reuters)
State-owned Kuwait Airways will be privatized by the end of March, the chairman of the Gulf Arab carrier was quoted as saying in a Kuwait newspaper on Wednesday.
Hamad al-Falah told Arabic language daily al-Nahar that "the transformation procedures are in the final stages."
Last August, Kuwait appointed Citigroup Inc., Ernst & Young and aviation services firm Seabury to handle the privatization of its national carrier.
Kuwait's parliament approved a plan in 2008 to privatize loss-making Kuwait Airways Corp. Under the plan, the government will sell 40 per cent of the flag carrier to the public and 35 per cent to a long-term investor.
The airline has a fleet of 17 planes.
Falah also told the newspaper that its five Airbus A300 jets fleet, grounded last month for inspection, were back in service
Short link: