Royal Air Maroc has just announced it is resuming its flights to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The highly anticipated decision demonstrates a return to a degree of normality for connections with the Persian Gulf. In parallel, RAM has resumed all its suspended routes between May and June – with the exception of a single segment. Only Europe remains affected by a reduced flight schedule.
The Moroccan carrier has thus confirmed that it will once again connect Casablanca to Doha in Qatar, from 1 July, with a daily frequency. On 3 July, RAM will return to Dubai with three weekly frequencies.
In Africa, the company had scaled back its operations in May and June. Six destinations in Central Africa were affected at that time. These were the flights connecting Casablanca to Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Douala, Bangui, Yaoundé, and Libreville. Since June 10th, the reopening of these routes has been gradual. Only the resumption of the Casablanca-Brazzaville-Kinshasa service, now scheduled for June 30th, remains.
However, it is many European leisure routes that will not return for the summer season. While some business routes will continue to operate, albeit with reduced frequency.
Thus, the seasonal flights from Marrakech to six cities are completely cancelled. The routes affected are those to Bordeaux, Brussels, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse, each of which was scheduled to run twice a week. Their cancellation is planned between early July and mid-September.
Flights from Casablanca have been reduced from three to two per week to Catania and Montpellier, from four to three per week to Venice, from five to four per week to Valencia, and from three to two per week to Zurich. This will be in effect from mid-July. Finally, from Tangier, RAM will retain only one flight per week, instead of two, to Barcelona and Malaga.
