“The National Company will thus offer 6 million seats on 80 air routes across four continents. By restoring a large part of the air routes closed since the health crisis, and by opening new routes such as Tel Aviv and Dubai, Royal Air Maroc will recover nearly 90% of its network in 2019,” RAM said in a statement.
Thus, and to facilitate the travel of its customers during the summer vacations, RAM will offer more than 2.2 million seats on the European continent which is home to several large communities of Moroccans in the world, the statement said, noting that some 437 frequencies per week will connect 9 Moroccan airports to 32 airports in Europe.
In France, 890,000 seats will be offered and 400 flights (200 frequencies) will be operated per week on 28 air routes linking 9 airports in France to 8 cities in the Kingdom. The routes linking 8 Moroccan airports to Paris (CDG and Orly) alone will offer 121 frequencies per week.
In the rest of Europe, 43 air routes will connect 22 European airports to 8 Moroccan cities, with a capacity of over 1.3 million seats. The airline will offer 237 frequencies per week.
Air routes where large communities of Moroccans of the World reside and which experience high demand in summer, will be strengthened. The routes linking Casablanca to Barcelona, Bologna, Malaga, Madrid, Brussels, and Milan will be increased to a double daily flight.
In Africa, RAM strengthens its network which will increase to 25 air routes and an offer of 900,000 seats. Some 110 frequencies per week will be offered. The Company will gradually recover the network it had on the continent before the Covid-19 crisis.
In North America, the national airline will offer nearly 500,000 seats, 6% more than the offer proposed in summer 2019. Some 35 weekly frequencies will be introduced on the four air routes linking Casablanca to New York, Washington, Montreal and Miami.
On this last stop, closed since the beginning of the Covid crisis, the Company resumed its flights from April 10, recalled the statement.
In the Middle East, RAM will offer 200,000 seats, an increase of 25% compared to the summer 2019 offer. Also, 17 frequencies will be scheduled on the six air routes operated by the company linked to Casablanca.
In addition to Jeddah, Riyadh, Medina, Cairo and Tel Aviv launched last March, the company will expand its network with the opening very soon of a new air route linking Casablanca to Dubai.
In addition, and in order to launch this program in the best conditions, RAM indicated that it will proceed with the chartering, from companies of international renown, of efficient aircraft, stressing that the use of these aircraft is carried out according to the criteria and standards of safety and comfort imposed by the competent authorities and by Royal Air Maroc.
As a major player in national tourism and the first carrier of international tourists in Morocco, the national company devotes 80% of these seats to tourist destinations, noted the statement.
“As a leading player in national tourism, Royal Air Maroc has always accompanied the sector, and even more so in times of crisis, being almost the only operator to have maintained its flights to our country, despite the great operational and financial difficulties. It was therefore essential that we mobilize, again, to relaunch the lines point to point, and putting in place the human and material resources necessary for this resumption,” said the Chairman and CEO of RAM, Hamid Addou, quoted in the statement.
“As a member of the oneworld Alliance, we have put its extremely dense network of more than 1,000 destinations to work for the benefit of the tourism sector by strengthening connectivity between the main emitting markets and Moroccan destinations, thereby accelerating the recovery. We have therefore opened new tourist routes while increasing frequencies on the most important routes,” concluded Addou.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse