26 OCT: Hundreds of Kuwait Airways Corp. staff began an indefinite strike yesterday over pay demands.
"We have started an open strike from today. It will continue until the government meets our legitimate demands of raising our wages", a union official told news agency AFP.
State-owned Kuwait Airways cancelled five outbound and five incoming flights to various destinations and more flights were likely to be cancelled.
The loss-making carrier operates around 25 flights daily using Airbus and Boeing jets.
The union official said that a strike due to start earlier this month was called off after the government promised to meet most of the demands immediately, but nothing happened.
