Fancy a seven-hour Dubai flight minus baggage and food? Wizz Air does

Would you spend seven hours on a budget airline? That reality could soon be possible. Wizz Air is eyeing the first ultra-low-cost London to Dubai flight as it ramps up services using its new long-range aircraft.

The budget airline, Europe’s third largest, has just announced the first direct service to Medina, in Saudi Arabia, from London Gatwick. It’s the carrier’s second flight into Saudi: at the end of March Wizz will start flying from London to Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast (it…