Qatar Airways will expand its network with eight more destinations in 2017-2018.

The new cities are Canberra, Dublin, Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Medan, Tabuk and Yanbu.

The airline is already scheduled to launch flights in 2017 to Auckland, Chiang Mai, Douala, Libreville, Nice, Sarajevo and Skopje, all announced in March 2016.

Qatar Airways has introduced Adelaide, Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Helsinki, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Pisa, Ras Al Khaimah, Sydney, Windhoek and Yerevan to its network so far this year, and is due to launch Krabi and Seychelles in December 2016.

The carrier now flies to more than 150 destinations around the world.