Dubai: Just two weeks after launching a brace of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) routes with flights to Muscat and Kuwait City, flydubai, Dubai's first low cost airline, yesterday announced a further two routes Assiut in Egypt and Istanbul, Turkey to bring the airline's network to 15 destinations.

Priced from Dh350, flights to Assiut, the largest town in Upper Egypt, are three times per week and start on May 24. Travellers will be able to visit Istanbul, European Capital of Culture 2010, with flydubai's low fare of Dh450 from June 17. Flights to Istanbul will be five times per week.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai said: "The addition of these new routes is in line with our commitment to make travel to key destinations in this region more accessible and more affordable."