Abdelhamid Addou

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• Royal Air Maroc Expands Routes, Plans Fleet Renewal Amid Growth Strategy
  12 May 2024, by Prince

  Invited on the "Grand invité de l’économie" program of RFI and Jeune Afrique, Abdelhamid Addou, CEO of Royal Air Maroc, reviewed the burning issues of the moment affecting the life and survival of the Moroccan airline.
  Abdelhamid Addou announced good prospects for Royal Air Maroc (RAM). The Moroccan airline will launch new routes in Europe and Africa and renew its fleet of aircraft. "We will reopen Abuja in Nigeria next June, a route that will be added to the one on Lagos. This is a first (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Grounds Boeing 737 MAX 8 Fleet Following Ethiopian Airlines Crash
  11 March 2019, by Said

  Less than 24 hours after the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people, the entire crew and passengers, the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is suspending commercial flights with the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
  It is the CEO of RAM himself, Abdelhamid Addou, who confirmed this to our colleagues at HuffPost, referring to "an ongoing maintenance operation".
  Yet in early January, the Moroccan company had welcomed in a press release the reception of this aircraft. "We are pleased to (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Launches Direct Casablanca-Beijing Flight in January 2020
  12 September 2019, by Kamal

  The national air transport company, Royal Air Maroc, has just announced the opening of a new direct air link between Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca and Daxing in Beijing. The inauguration will take place from January 16, 2020.
  According to a press release from Royal Air Maroc (RAM), this new airline route, which will for the first time connect Morocco to China in less than 13 hours, will be operated by the Dreamliner, Boeing 787-9, with a capacity of 301 seats including 26 (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Unveils Strategy to Boost Tourism and Become Africa’s Gateway
  23 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  In his speech during this meeting, the CEO announced his intention to develop a strategy to get out of the status quo by taking advantage of the exceptional geographical situation of the Kingdom, in order to position Morocco as the gateway to Africa.
  To this end, he explains that the transformation into a stronger and more resilient airline can serve as the accelerator of the tourism strategy through the operation of Moroccan tourist destinations via point-to-point, domestic and hub. (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Wins Top African Airline Awards for Operations and Financial Performance
  27 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has won two awards as the best airline in the "Global Operations" and "Best Improved Financial Results" categories. This took place on the occasion of the 51st Annual General Assembly of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), held from November 10 to 12 in Mauritius.
  These two awards reflect the momentum initiated by the airline both operationally and financially in 2018, RAM indicates in a press release.
  Proud of this international recognition awarded by a jury (…)

• Royal Air Maroc CEO Unveils Rescue Plan Amid Severe Revenue Losses
  15 May 2020, by Bladi.net

  Long silent, the CEO of Royal Air Maroc, Abdelhamid Addou, has taken stock of the company and presented the rescue plan, which will have to rigorously go through a policy of austerity.
  "The company is in a bad way. I would like to share with you, with complete transparency, the situation of our company and our daily struggle to preserve our fundamentals and our brand." This is the precise introduction with which the CEO presented, in a letter addressed to his employees, the alarming (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Negotiates Rescue Plan, Pilots Agree to 45% Pay Cut
  19 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is actively preparing its rescue plan. The Moroccan airline has engaged in separate talks with the government council and the Moroccan Association of Airline Pilots (AMPL).
  The company’s top management and AMPL representatives held a meeting on Friday, May 15, according to sources, during which the social partners agreed to a 45% reduction in pilots’ salaries, regardless of their productivity, for 5 years.
  "There is nothing left to negotiate, because the life of (…)

• Royal Air Maroc CEO Named Among Forbes’ Top 50 Influential Leaders in MENA Region
  9 March 2022, by Armel

  The only Moroccan in the ranking established by the American magazine Forbes, the head of the national company ranks 33rd and shows that this new recognition crowns RAM’s leadership in the sub-region.
  Abdelhamid Addou is largely outpaced in this ranking by the leaders of the giants, namely the bosses of the Emirates Group and Qatar Airways companies. Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Akbar Al Baker are respectively 1st and 2nd on the list.
  The third place was won by Paul Griffiths, a (…)

• Royal Air Maroc to Sell Six Boeing 737-700s Amid Restructuring Plan
  9 December 2020, by Sylvanus

  Abdelhamid Addou, CEO of RAM, told Le360 that the airline will launch an international call for tenders in the "coming days" to sell 6 Boeing 737-700s. These are the oldest machines it owns.
  He specified that this sale was planned for two years but "the crisis has accelerated this sale, just as it has accelerated the shutdown of the Airbus A380 for many airlines".
  This sale is part of the airline’s restructuring plan to reduce its costs. This plan provides for a 30% reduction in RAM’s (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Boosts Summer Flights for Moroccan Diaspora, Offering 2.5 Million Seats
  12 June 2021, by Armel

  After relaunching its flight program and unveiling its new destinations for the summer of 2021, the national airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is offering an offer of nearly 2.5 million seats for the period from June 15 to September 15, 2021.
  Despite the limitations of traffic due to health restrictions, RAM has undertaken to support Moroccans living abroad (MREs) and its customers during the summer period, says a press release from the company.
  To this end, RAM has put in place a (…)