North Africa, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. These are the three geographical areas that benefit most from the new summer lines on Marseille-Provence international airport.
In North Africa, the first airline to inaugurate new routes is Air Arabia Maroc. The low-cost carrier is now offering flights on Fez and Oujda. Marseille-Fez is served every Monday, Thursday and Sunday; Marseille-Oujda every Monday and Wednesday.
More good news for the airport. The low-cost Volotea is setting up a base in Algeria from 16 September. The airline will offer up to two flights a day to six cities. Oran will be served by four weekly flights, Annaba, Béjaïa, Constantine, Sétif and Tlemcen with two weekly flights each. Finally, from July, Ryanair will offer two flights a week to Essaouira and Tetouan in Morocco.
Ryanair confirms its pre-eminence at Marseille
Towards the Indian Ocean, competition is intensifying with the arrival of Corsair. From 21 June, the carrier will be launching two flights a week (Monday and Wednesday) from Lyon to Saint-Denis de la Réunion via Marseille. The carrier offers fast connections on Mayotte on arrival at La Réunion. The flights will be operated by the latest-generation Airbus A330-900 NEO.
Services to the departments of the Indian Ocean are also being strengthened with a new seasonal route operated by the airline Air Austral. It will offer between June and September, flights every Thursday and Sunday from Marseille to Mayotte. The flights are operated by Boeing 787-800 Dreamliners.
Finally, in the Mediterranean basin, the carrier Ryanair is strengthening its offer with routes on Alghero, Bari, Corfu, Menorca and Rhodes from July. There will be two flights a week to each destination.
These openings confirm the carrier's irresistible growth in Marseille. The Provencal metropolis is in fact the largest base in France for Ryanair. The airline is stationing four aircraft there to fly to 49 destinations.. This includes the resumption of a dozen routes suspended in summer 2020.
Will there be a recovery in 2021? Marseille-Provence International Airport welcomed 3.4 million passengers last year, 66% lower than in 2019. This was an impressive fall, especially as the airport had reached ten million passengers for the first time in its history in 2019.
