Kuwait Airways shelves Sarajevo flights over ban

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Kuwait Airways shelves Sarajevo flights over ban

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Kuwait Airways, which only recently announced it had restored plans to inaugurate services between Kuwait City and Sarajevo, has been forced to cancel the flights after Kuwait introduced a ban on operations to and from Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a number of other markets, among which are Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, to limit the spread of the coronavirus Covid-19. The ban will be in place until further notice. In addition, Bosnia and Herzegovina does not permit the entry of Kuwaiti nationals into the country. Kuwait Airways resumed scheduled operations after several months this past weekend.

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