Dubai: Qatar Airways is adding more than 1,700 seats on its Doha-Vienna route from September, the airline announced on Tuesday.

It stated that due to expanding passenger demand it will upgrade the existing service from an Airbus A320 to an A330. The larger aircraft will add 168 seats in business class and 1624 seats in economy to weekly flights bringing the total weekly capacity to 3640 seats.

Qatar Airways operates daily Doha-Vienna services and the changes will come into place from September 1.