Aviation

August 14, 2018

Air Arabia Maroc Announces New Service Connecting Basel and Agadir

Air Arabia Maroc announced the launch of its second service from Basel to Morocco. After the Basel to Casablanca service, operating since 2010, the new service connecting Basel to Agadir will start on October 19, 2018. The new service will operat, once a week on Mondays. Adel Al Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer of Air Arabia, said: “We are pleased to announce the launch of our second service from Basel Airport. After seven years of operations to Casablanca, we have decided to offer our customers a new value for money option to......

August 13, 2018

Morocco now major aircraft spare parts hub as Nigeria lags

Nigeria, the largest population in Africa with geographic location at the very centre of the continent is still lagging behind in becoming a hub for supplying aircraft parts as Morocco steps into the big shoes and begins sales of aircraft spare parts to African countries.
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August 12, 2018

Video: Royal Air Maroc Flight’s 45-Hour Delay Infuriates Passengers

RAM passengers waiting at Brussels Airport for 45 hours were furious to learn that their flight was delayed again. Royal Air Maroc passengers heading to Morocco waited for 45 hours at the airport after their flight was canceled on Friday. To their despair, the newly scheduled flight was also delayed. Some RAM passengers were originally scheduled to leave for Morocco on Tuesday evening and others on Wednesday afternoon, however their flights were delayed until Friday morning only to be delayed again to Friday evening before being canceled.......

August 11, 2018

Royal Air Maroc Plane Clips Turkish Plane in Istanbul

The minor accident caused more fear than harm.

A Royal Air Maroc plane’s wing hit a Turkish Airlines plane’s tail at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport while on the ground. No injuries"...

August 7, 2018

Casablanca Airport’s Terminal 1 Is Still Not Open despite ‘Completion’

After a decade of work and a series of delays and un-kept promises, Mohammed V Airport’s Terminal 1 is still not open.

The Terminal 1 project, which was undertaken nearly a decade ago to expand the Casablanca-based"...

August 5, 2018

Royal Air Maroc have big expansion plans but only if its survives strike action.

The national airline of Morocco, Royal Air Maroc has unveiled some big plans for 2019 including long-haul flights to Miami, increased capacity to London and a whole host of other improvements to its schedules. But, only if it can end the pilot's strike that is currently seeing around"...

August 4, 2018

Morocco: flights ahead of Festival of Sacrifice at risk

Flying to Morocco has never been so expensive or risky during the Festival of Sacrifice. A strike by pilots with national carrier Royal Air Maroc has led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights over the past two weeks, leaving more than 20,000 passengers grounded, mostly in France,"...

July 30, 2018

Etihad to fly Dreamliner to Moroccan capital

Etihad Airways will introduce the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its scheduled services from Abu Dhabi to Rabat, capital of Morocco, effective October 3, replacing the Airbus A330-300 currently serving the route.

The introduction of the technologically advanced aircraft on Rabat"...

July 30, 2018

Fakih IVF Fertility Center Launches CSR Initiative to Commemorate the Year of Zayed

Fakih IVF Fertility Center, one of the leading Infertility, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Genetics and IVF centers in the GCC region, has announced the launch of its CSR Initiative to commemorate the Year of Zayed, which marks 100 years since the birth of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan,"...

July 28, 2018

RAM Losing MAD 20 Million Daily to Pilot Strike, Ready to Negotiate

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) pilots’ protests have caused massive losses to the company’s finances of an estimated MAD 20 million each day, according to L’Economiste.

The trouble began on July 18 when"...