Royal Air Maroc to Resume Boeing 737 MAX Flights to Europe in June

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 are back. Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has decided to put its 156-seat 737-8s back into the GDSs starting June 24, 2021, reports Air journal. These aircraft will serve the routes connecting Mohammed V-Casablanca airport to the airports of Paris-Orly (on the first of the two rotations posted this Thursday), Lyon-Saint Exupéry, Marseille-Provence, Nantes-Atlantique, Toulouse-Blagnac and Barcelona-El Prat.

The Oneworld alliance company had received two of the four 737-8s ordered (the CN-MAX and CN-MAY, configured to accommodate 12 passengers in Business class and 144 in Economy) since December 2018, but had to ground them in March 2019. The origin of this decision was the two MAX accidents that caused 346 fatalities at Lion Air and then Ethiopian Airlines.

The announced flights will be operated depending on the evolution of the health crisis related to the coronavirus and the restrictive measures. To date, Morocco has banned flights with 54 countries, including France and Spain, in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus and its variants in the kingdom. Only special flights or maritime crossings are authorized to repatriate foreigners stranded in the kingdom.