The official flight of December 22 opens the ball of air services between Israel and Morocco. These will become operational within three months, with daily direct flights between Tel Aviv, Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakech, said Nadia Fettah Alaoui, the Moroccan Minister of Tourism, to the television channel I24 .
Royal Air Maroc wants to benefit from the digitized services offered through the National Single Window for Foreign Trade Procedures PortNet. The airline plans to use this platform for the filing and processing of customs documents for imports.
For this winter season and particularly for the end-of-year holidays, the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) has concluded a flight agreement with Transavia and Air France. An opportunity to attract more tourists after the stoppage imposed by the Covid-19 crisis and to hope for a return to normal.
The first official contacts have already begun between Morocco and Israel. The two countries are working to set up liaison offices and establish a direct air link.
While some flights have been scheduled for Marrakech as early as December 19 for the end of year holidays, tourism professionals are still concerned. If here, many flights have been authorized, there the inter-regional movements are still prohibited, and elsewhere like Al Haouz and Essaouira, we are saddened not to be taken into account by the special end-of-year recovery program.
Mouloudia d’Alger (MCA) has called on the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) to transport the Beninese club "les Buffles du Borgou" with whom it was to play a return match of the preliminary round of the African Champions League on December 4. This club refused to travel to Algeria on an Air France flight.
Online travel comparators have recorded a sharp increase in flight booking requests to Marrakech following the first announcements from pharmaceutical laboratories on the imminent availability of Covid-19 vaccines.
A few days before the launch of the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Morocco, the debate is taking place on the establishment of an immunity passport, essential for traveling. While many Moroccans see it as a source of discrimination, given the freedom or not to be vaccinated, the Minister of Health is categorical: "it will not be possible to travel without a Covid-19 passport."
The Spanish airline Iberia is relaunching its flights to Morocco. The inaugural flight of the Madrid-Casablanca route was operated this Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
Heavily impacted this year by Covid-19 and its corollaries, tourism and air transport are receiving a breath of fresh air from the government. For the year 2021, the supervisory ministry benefits from more than 534 million DH to relaunch tourism activities that have been sluggish since last March and support the air transport sector which is facing an unprecedented crisis.
The air traffic of Marrakech-Menara International Airport experienced a 73.36% drop during the first 10 months of 2020. This is what the National Airports Office (ONDA) indicated.
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.