Dubai-based carrier flydubai has announced direct daily flights to Faisalabad, the third largest city in Pakistan, together with an increase in the frequency of the airline’s flights to Pakistan, doubling the size of its network in the country.

The daily service to Faisalabad will commence on 10 July 2015 increasing to nine flights per week from 3 August 2015. From 10 July 2015, flydubai will also increase the frequency of its flights to Karachi up to 28 flights per week, to Multan up to nine flights per week and, starting from 13 July 2015, to Sialkot up to eight flights per week.

The airline started flying to Pakistan five years ago in June 2010 and with the launch of flights to Faisalabad brings the number of weekly flights to all points in Pakistan to 57.