Royal Air Maroc Expands Summer Routes, Aims to Recover 90% of Pre-Pandemic Network

Royal Air Maroc will offer 6 million seats on 80 air routes across the four continents. "By restoring a large part of the air routes closed since the health crisis, and by opening new lines such as Tel Aviv and Dubai, Royal Air Maroc will recover nearly 90% of its 2019 network," the national airline said in a statement.

RAM will offer more than 2.2 million seats in Europe, where several large communities of Moroccans living abroad are located. In total, 437 weekly flights will be operated between 9 Moroccan airports and 32 European airports. In France, it will offer 890,000 seats and schedule 400 weekly flights (200 frequencies) on 28 air routes connecting nine airports in the country to eight cities in the kingdom. As for the routes connecting eight Moroccan airports to Paris (CDG and Orly), the frequencies number 121 per week.

For the other European countries, 43 air routes will connect 22 European airports to eight Moroccan cities for a capacity of more than 1.3 million seats. RAM will thus offer 237 frequencies per week. Similarly, the national airline will strengthen the air routes where large communities of Moroccans living abroad reside and which experience strong demand in the summer. The routes connecting Casablanca to Barcelona, Bologna, Malaga, Madrid, Brussels and Milan will thus go to a double daily flight, it is specified. In Africa, Royal Air Maroc will offer 900,000 seats on 25 air routes and 110 frequencies per week, in order to gradually recover the network it had on the continent before the Covid-19 crisis.

In North America, RAM will offer nearly 500,000 seats, which is 6% more than the offer proposed in the summer of 2019. It will also offer 35 weekly frequencies on the four air routes connecting Casablanca to New York, Washington, Montreal and Miami. In the Middle East, the number of seats offered is 200,000, an increase of 25% compared to the offer in the summer of 2019. It will also schedule 17 frequencies on the six air routes connected to Casablanca. The national airline also plans to open a new air route connecting Casablanca to Dubai very soon.