
Morocco Sets Sunday Deadline for Foreign Tourists to Leave Amid Coronavirus Restrictions
Repatriation flights for foreign tourists stranded in Morocco are authorized until next Sunday.

Repatriation flights for foreign tourists stranded in Morocco are authorized until next Sunday.

The signs are red for the low-cost airline Ryannair, which has reduced its flight program by more than 80%, due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is mired in an unprecedented financial crisis, to the point of negotiating unpaid leave with its staff.

Morocco and Algeria have just suspended their air links due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Morocco has just decided, in consultation with the Spanish authorities, to suspend, until further notice, air flights and passenger maritime traffic to and from Spain.

Moroccan tourism is paying a heavy price due to the coronavirus. The kingdom will lose at least 100,000 tourists in March.

According to the latest data published by the National Airports Office (ONDA), Marrakech-Menara airport recorded, in January 2020, an increase in the number of its passengers of 9.56%, i.e. a total of 509,024 passengers, compared to only 464,595 travelers in January 2019.

The airline, Air Arabia Maroc , has just announced the launch of several flights to Europe. The promotional fares are 400 dirhams.

Dakhla airport experienced a 26.75% increase in passenger traffic in 2019 compared to 2018, according to data from the National Airports Office (ONDA).

The airline Vueling will launch next spring two new routes, including one connecting Gran Canaria to Marrakech .

The Spanish airline, Vueling, will launch a new air route between the cities of Seville (southern Spain) and Marrakech on July 1st.

The Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca has exceeded, for the first time in its history, the threshold of 10 million passengers, said the National Airports Office (ONDA).