The police elements at Agadir Al-Massira airport made an unexpected discovery from a Swedish passenger. A man was trying to conceal about 1,600 reptiles in homemade objects, to bring them back to Sweden.
More than 29,000 travelers transited through Agadir Al-Massira airport last October, compared to 174,557 during the same period, according to a press release from the National Airports Office (ONDA).
Over the first ten months of 2020, commercial passenger traffic fell by 70.79% compared to 2019. Moroccan air traffic thus stood at 6.144 million passengers, according to the National Airports Office (ONDA) in its monthly statistics.
The repatriation operation of Moroccans stranded in France to the kingdom will begin on Monday, June 22.
Several months after the suspension of their activities due to the coronavirus pandemic, airports are gradually resuming their activities. Like the other airports in the kingdom, Agadir Al Massira Airport is also preparing to welcome passengers again.
The airline, Air Arabia , has announced the resumption of domestic air links from June 16. The flight schedule is now available on its website.
Franc-Comtois are stranded, like thousands of European tourists, in the airports of Agadir, Marrakech, Casablanca or Rabat, since the closure of air links imposed by Morocco to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.
The Souss Massa regional council allocates an annual subsidy of 21.3 million dirhams to strengthen air connections with other regions of Morocco. It is in partnership with the airline Air Arabia that 15 million are reserved for the Rabat service and 6.3 million for Tangier.
Agadir airport reached the two million passenger mark for the first time on Wednesday.
Moroccan airports recorded a record number of passengers, with an annual increase of 11.76% for the first ten months of 2019.
The Agadir-Al Massira International Airport has crossed the 1.5 million passenger mark as of last September. According to statistics from the National Airports Office (ONDA), 1,505,792 travelers transited through this airport infrastructure, all nationalities combined.
During the first eight months of 2019, nearly 16.7 million travelers transited through the various Moroccan airports, compared to 14.85 million travelers in the same period last year.