Emirates will resume flights between Dubai and Venice from July 1, initially offering three flights a week on the route, increasing trade and tourism connectivity between the UAE and Italy.

The airline will also increase services to Milan from eight to 10 weekly flights in July. This will comprise of a daily service on the Dubai-Milan-New York JFK route, and a thrice weekly return flights between Dubai and Milan.

Together with Emirates’ five weekly flights to Rome and thrice weekly flights to Bologna, this will take the airline’s total services to Italy to 21 weekly flights to four cities in July.

Emirates will serve Venice, Milan, Rome and Bologna with its widebody Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.