Morocco’s flag carrier increases seats capacity to 6.2 Mln to over 90 destinations during summer season

Morocco’s flag carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced, Monday, that it will deploy an exceptional flight program during the summer season, with an offer of 6.2 million seats on more than 90 destinations.

“On the eve of a summer season that promises to be exceptional, Royal Air Maroc is deploying a reinforced flight program on most of its destinations. Thus, the national airline is preparing to meet strong demand for its flights, in a buoyant context marked by a good recovery in business travel and tourism. Royal Air Maroc will put in place an offer of 6.2 million seats on more than 90 destinations across the four continents,” said RAM in a statement.

This increase in supply follows the restoration of almost all routes that were suspended during the health crisis and the opening of new routes in 2022 such as Tel Aviv, Dubai, Seville, and Porto.

RAM has covered nearly 95% of its 2019 network. The Company deploys its new capacities to facilitate the travel of its customers in the summer period, especially Moroccan expatriates.

Thus, more than 2.3 million seats will be deployed on the European continent and some 902 flights per week will connect 11 Moroccan airports to 34 European airports.

In North America, the company will offer nearly 500,000 seats, 6% more than the offer in summer 2019. As a pan-African carrier serving the African diaspora, Royal Air Maroc is strengthening its continental network, which will increase to 26 air routes with an offer of 901,800 seats.

RAM will also offer 200,000 seats on its Middle East routes, an increase of 25% over the 2019 summer offer.

Meanwhile, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair inaugurated on Sunday a new air link between Ouarzazate and Barcelona that will be operated at the rate of two flights per week, within the framework of its program for the summer 2023.

The inaugural flight of this new air service, which reinforces Ryanair’s international network, landed at Ouarzazate airport from the capital of the Catalonia region with 81 passengers on board.

Deputy director of Ouarzazate airport, Ahmed Errouhi, welcomed the inauguration of this new air link, which confirms the resumption of international air traffic recorded at this airport hub after the Covid pandemic.