Eurowings introduced a new service between Prague and Agadir in Morocco on Wednesday 1 November. The 2,960-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the 180-seat A320 aircraft. Eurowings faces no competition on the route, being the only carrier linking Prague with Morocco during the winter. Over the summer months, Smartwings maintains […]
November 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Volotea launched flights between its Nantes base and Marrakech in Morocco on Saturday 23 September. The 1,115-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the 156-seat A319 aircraft. The airline faces strong competition on the route, going head-to-head against 9-weekly easyJet flights, as well as daily TUI fly operations. What they said […]
September 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air France introduced a pair of new seasonal routes from Nice to Marrakesh and Santorini on Friday 7 July and Saturday 8 July respectively. The 1,895-kilometre service to Marrakesh will run 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, until 25 August with the A320-family fleet. It will compete directly against easyJet’s 4-weekly flights on the route. On […]
July 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Arabia Maroc (IATA code 3O) now offers non-stop service between Tangier and Cologne Bonn in Germany. The 1,980-kilometre route will be flown by the Moroccan LCC every Saturday for the rest of the summer using its A320s, with the first flight having taken place on 24 June. Competition on the route comes from Eurowings, […]
July 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Arabia Maroc on Thursday 22 June introduced a new 2-weekly service between Oujda, in northeast Morocco, near the Algerian border, and Montpellier. The 1,100-kilometre service will be maintained on Thursdays and Sundays with the 174-seat A320 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition on the route. The airline has added a further two new routes […]
June 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Arabia Maroc on 2 March started service between Fez and Weeze, in Germany’s lower Rhine region on the border with the Netherlands. The weekly 2,160-kilometre route operates each Thursday and will increase to 2-weekly from 28 March, with the additional rotation to run on Tuesdays. Flight 3O236 departs Fez at 14:00 local time, arriving […]
March 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Morocco’s flag-carrier, Royal Air Maroc, can trace its history back to the 1950s. Based in Casablanca, the airline currently has a fleet of almost 50 active aircraft, comprising eight 787-8/9s, 29 737-800/MAXs, three E190s and six ATR 72s. It has been a member of the oneworld alliance since April 2020. Between 2004 and 2019 annual […]
February 22, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Good news for Morocco’s airports. Traffic data from ONDA showed that passenger numbers across the country’s airports in December 2022 were 4% higher than in 2019, with seven of the top eight airports recording growth. Only Casablanca, the busiest airport in Morocco, failed to reach the same level of demand as it achieved three years […]
February 21, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
Air Arabia Maroc (IATA code 3O) launched service from Casablanca in May 2009. The carrier is a joint venture between Sharjah-based Air Arabia and Moroccan investors. With a fleet of nine 174-seat Airbus A320s the airline is the biggest low-cost carrier (LCC) headquartered in Morocco. Initially operating international routes just from Casablanca, the airline has […]
February 20, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Morocco has more European seats than any other African nation, heavily influenced by open skies with the EU, (U)LCC growth, the geographic proximity, Moroccan diaspora and growing tourism. If all country-to-continent markets are analysed, Morocco-Europe ranks 54th this winter, based on Cirium schedules information data. It has nearly as many winter seats as the UK […]
November 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
airBaltic (IATA code BT) now serves Morocco for the first time. On Monday 31 October the carrier began 2-weekly service on the 3,735-kilometre route between its biggest base of Riga in Latvia and Marrakech. No other carrier connects these two airports. The service will be flown on Mondays and Fridays and is currently bookable until […]
November 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Traffic statistics from ONDA in Morocco reveal that across the period May to July, passenger numbers at the country’s airports on flights between Europe and Morocco were up 6% versus the same period in 2019, from 4.21 million to 4.48 million. Demand was up 15% in May, down 3% in June and up 8% in […]
September 14, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story