UAE-based airline Flydubai announced on Tuesday the start of flights to Budapest in Hungary and Naples in Italy.

The budget airline will operate up to five flights a week to Naples from 4 June 2019 becoming the first UAE carrier to offer direct flights to the Italian city.

Daily flights to Budapest will start on 27 June 2019 and will be in addition to the current service offered by Emirates and WizzAir.

Emirates will codeshare on both routes, which will operate from Terminal 3 at Dubai International.

“We are delighted to be launching flights to Budapest and Naples. These destinations provide our passengers with more choice on our network while reaffirming our commitment to the vision set by us to create free flows of tourism and strengthen direct air links with the UAE,” said Ghaith Al Ghaith, chief executive officer of Flydubai