The Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council announced today that Yemen Airways has received major support from the State of Kuwait, including three aircraft and two engines. The Chairman of the Council expressed his thanks and gratitude to His Highness Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of the State of Kuwait, his Crown Prince, the government and the brotherly Kuwaiti people, for this generous initiative.

The Chairman of the Leadership Council stressed that this support represents an important addition to a long record of Kuwait’s honorable positions and its generous humanitarian interventions at various stages and circumstances alongside the Yemeni people and their political leadership, indicating that these positions reflect Kuwait’s sincere keenness to achieve the aspirations of the Yemenis to restore institutions. State, peace, security, stability, and development.

The step came after the Houthis hijacked four planes and refused to return them to Riyadh to return hundreds of pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia. The Houthi group announced its control of the planes and the acquisition of the assets of the Yemeni company and its operation from Sanaa.