Dubai: Qatar Airways said on Monday it would operate twenty weekly flights to Riyadh from Doha from September 1, representing a more than 40 per cent increase in weekly services.

The airline is adding a third daily flight on each day of the week, except for Tuesday’s, it said in a statement.

Qatar Airways has already announced it would fly three times a day to Madinah from early September and recently increased services to Jeddah to four times a day.