Royal Air Maroc flights had to land this Saturday, January 23, at Marrakech airport instead of Casablanca due to fog, according to Internet users on the company’s fan page.
A cargo plane from the Royal Air Maroc airline, carrying the first batch of anti-Covid-19 vaccine from the AstraZeneca laboratories, is scheduled to land on Friday, January 22 at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca.
In 2020, Morocco welcomed a total of 7.15 million air passengers, a 71.48% drop compared to 2019 when 25.07 million passengers were recorded. These figures were published by the National Airports Office (ONDA) .
The Algerian students stranded at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca for a few days were able to reach Algeria yesterday, Monday.
Algerian students stranded at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca after being turned away from Canada and brought back via the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Air Algérie will operate two repatriation flights this Monday, January 18, 2021.
The launch of air links between the Mohammed V and Ben Gurion airports announced by Nadia Fettah, Moroccan Minister of Air Transport, for February or March could be postponed.
After 13 years on the run, Reda Abakrim, the main suspect in the murder of Brahim Hajaji in the Cité de La Coudraie in Poissy, was arrested on December 22, 2020 in Casablanca. Considered a big shot in the export of cannabis from Morocco to France, it was ultimately his fingerprints that put an end to 13 long years of fruitless police searches.
Air Arabia Maroc is offering a new domestic link between Casablanca and Guelmim. The launch of this flight took place on Monday, December 21, 2020.
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.
Despite the resurgence of new infections, some Royal Air Maroc passengers are reluctant to comply with the restrictive measures enacted by the health authorities and the National Airports Office to counter Covid-19 . A passenger who experienced this ordeal recounts his experience on a flight between Casablanca and Laâyoune.
An operation to destroy a significant quantity of drugs and various contraband products took place on Thursday at the Médiouna landfill, in the suburbs of Casablanca .
Terminal 2 of Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca will soon take on a new look. This space will undergo layout and decoration work, under the supervision of ONDA, which attaches great importance to the choice of materials, equipment, furniture and its design, as well as the implementation of detailed plans for the works.