Doha, March 6 -- Qatar Airways plans to increase flight frequency to Syria, responding to growing travel demand as the country emerges from over a decade of civil war.

The state-owned airline will add a second daily flight to Damascus in June, Chief Commercial Officer Thierry Antinori announced.

Qatar Airways currently operates the route with an Airbus A330 wide-body jet, maintaining a 90pc occupancy rate, he added.

Qatar Airways was one of the first international carriers to resume flights to the Syrian capital in January after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime. Most airlines stopped flying to Damascus at the start of the last decade after demonstrations escalated into a full civil war.

The carrier was also of the first to relaunc...