Casablanca Airport Aims for Global Hub Status by 2030 World Cup

The Mohammed V Casablanca Airport, a benchmark mega hub by 2030? This is the ambitious project of the National Airports Office (ONDA). The Spanish firm Ineco, specialized in consulting and planning of major projects, has been tasked with conducting a study aimed at transforming the first airport in Morocco into a modern and evolving infrastructure. This follows the launch in 2023 of an international tender. This study will be completed in a year, reveals an authorized source to Médias24, specifying that it is a question of defining the three main axes of development in terms of structures and service offerings to make this airport a mega hub like Dubai and Hong Kong.

The three main axes of this study are:

• Develop air traffic forecasts for Mohammed V airport, by collecting data on the development of sectors related to its air traffic, evaluating its current capacities and defining short-term improvement measures for the evolution of traffic, on the basis of which a proposal for the sizing and development of infrastructures will be made;

• Propose a resizing of its space with several development scenarios, and adapt them to the current situation to improve the quality of services and streamline airport procedures in order to ensure the best possible reception of travelers;

• Develop a functional program by determining the necessary needs.

"The objective is to make it a world-class airport, a benchmark mega hub that will eventually be among the top 100 best airports in the world," says the same source, noting that this project is perfectly in line with the recommendations of the New Economic Development Model which seeks to place Morocco on the world map of air transport. According to him, Morocco’s co-organization of the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal could give a boost to the project.