Faced with legal action in the US for its refusal to sell tickets to Israeli nationals, Kuwait Airways suspended its service between London and New York JFK Airport.
The controversy began in 2013 when Israeli citizen Eldad Gatt tried to buy a ticket from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to Heathrow Airport in London. The airline would not allow him make the purchase.
That incident set off an investigation by the US Transportation Department (DOT), which determined in September that the airline did, in fact, break the law by refusing the sale.
In October, the DOT ordered the airline to cancel its discriminatory policy. However, Kuwait Airways still refused, saying that Kuwaiti law prevented it from entering "into an agreement, personally or indirectly, with entities or persons residing in Israel, or with Israeli citizenship.”
"On December 15th, Kuwait Airways informed the U.S. DOT that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow," a DOT spokesperson told CNN. Online booking services showed no future flights available from the airline.
