Dubai just launched it’s first low-cost airline – Get moving with Fly Dubai.

Though political tensions remain, in particular between the Iranian and British governments, the Foreign Office no longer warns tourists against travelling to the Middle East, except for a few specific areas such as Iran's border with Iraq.

"It's definitely about the law of the neighbouring destination," says Tom Barber, founder of Original Travel, which specialises in the Middle East. "Dubai became very popular and then people started looking over the border into Oman and wondering what that was like".

And so, good news for independent travellers is that we’ve just had the launch of Dubai's first low-cost airline. This summer has made a multi-country trip to the region easy and affordable.

Flydubai has routes between Beirut, Damascus, Alexandria, Amman, Aleppo and Dubai with fares from about £60 one-way, although there are extra charges for checked-in baggage and booking a specific seat, but coming from the Ryanair generation, we’re well used to that – here’s a tenner, now just give me the seat and away we go.