Citybus
Kuwait
company website

(for pictures of older series go to the old version of the site)
Update 2018-04-16: City Bus purchased double deckers in 2017/2018: 2 (or 3?) Yutong ZK6116HGS and then 56 King Long XMQ6111SG.
new as per the list below are:
5284-5285: Yutong ZK6116HGS double deckers, 2017
5286-5325 and further: Yutong ZK6118HGA Facelift, 2017-2018
5601-5618 and further: Yutong ZK6118HGA Facelift Airport Express livery, 2017-2018
7001: King Long XMQ6119G
7002: (not noted)
7003-7058: King Long XMQ6111SG double deckers, 2017-2018

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Citybus was established in 2002. It has become Kuwait’s second largest bus operator with a fleet of just under 600 vehicles. The group is expanding it’s operations in the region, among others in Jordan (but already withdrew from Jordan).
Fleet details (from observations for vehicles withdrawn before 2010, from Citybus for current fleet in 2010, see list below). The first buses (around 2002) were bought from Marcopolo Brasil with some Japanese midibuses. They were numbered in 3-digit numbered series (though a trailing 0 was added to make most 4-digit!). In the period until 2007 the 8000-series buses followed: four or five Chinese prototypes (8000-8003), six secondhand coaches (8400-8405), one secondhand Neoplan doubledecker (8500) and hundreds of South Korean Daewoo, Hyundai and KIA buses in various lengths, door configurations and interior layouts. One series of Egyptian built Mercedes-Benz -MCV 400 buses was also bought (8300-series). The vehicles in the 8000/8100-series have only one door, the (similar) ones in the 83/85/86/87/8800-series have two doors. Then, in 2008, the switch to Chinese-built Yutong buses was made. In 2013 (?), two prototypes were added to the fleet: an Indian TATA -Marcopolo, number 7000, and a Chinese Guilin-Daewoo, number 8900. New doubledeckers from Elba in Jordan were announced but not yet seen in service.

Livery was initially white with a red front and rear end, later red skirts were added and the latest deliveries are allover red. Series 5227-52?? and buses 7000 and 9000 were delivered in the new red livery, most buses of series 5001-5175 have been repainted. Series 5601-56xx are in a special red-silver livery for the airport service.

In service by October 2017 are the various Yutong series, Daewoo BS106, BH090 and some BV120M. Prototype TATA-Marcopolo is used fro workers transport, prototype Guilin-Daewoo is in public service.