Qatar Airways has announced a new daily service to the city of Luxor in Egypt.

The now daily service is an increase on Qatar Airways’ current five-times weekly service to the Egyptian city, and will deliver an additional 30,000 seats per year to the tourist destination.

Filled with deep Egyptian history and a rich cultural scene, Luxor is famous for possessing one of the largest concentrations of historical monuments and antiquities in the world.

The new daily service to Luxor omplements Qatar Airways’ existing services to Cairo and Alexandria. The additional services also provides local residents in Luxor with convenient connections to Qatar Airways’ 150 destinations across the globe.

Qatar Airways Senior Vice President of Commercial Middle East, Africa and Pakistan, Ehab Amin said: “I’m pleased to announce an increase in services to the city of Luxor, Egypt to now provide a dedicated daily service to the magnificent tourism centre of Luxor. The increase in services to a daily flight reflect the strong demand we’ve experienced on this route since our launch of flights to Luxor in June of 2004. I look forward to working closely with our trade partners and to welcoming our passengers on-board our flights to and from Luxor as we go places and create memories together.”

Qatar Airways operates both a morning and evening service to the city of Luxor. Qatar Airways is one of the fastest growing airlines operating one of the youngest fleets in the world. Now in its 19th year of operations, the airline operates a modern fleet of 190 aircraft flying to more than 150 key business and leisure destinations across six continents.

This year travellers will continue to see Qatar Airways expand its global reach, with over a dozen new destinations to explore. So far in 2016, the airline has launched routes to Los Angeles (USA), Ras Al Khaimah (UAE), Sydney (Australia), Boston (USA), Birmingham (UK), Adelaide (Australia), Yerevan (Armenia), Atlanta (USA), Marrakech (Morocco) and Pisa (Italy) and most recently, Windhoek (Namibia) and Helsinki (Finland). New routes including Krabi (Thailand), and Seychelles will follow later in the year.