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In the first five months of 2018, more than 100,000 Chinese tourists visited Morocco, which lifted the visa on Chinese nationals in 2016. Last year, they were 120,000 Chinese tourists among nearly 11 million tourists who visited the North African kingdom where Chinese restaurants are mushrooming. At the China-Morocco Tourism Forum held in Casablanca in […]
Morocco’s airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has been designed an official carrier of the Ecrans Noirs (Black screens) festival in Cameroon. The airline signed a deal with the organizers of the festival, the Ecrans Noirs Association, covering the upcoming two editions of the festival in 2019 and 2020. Under the agreement, RAM will sponsor the […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), said it wants to increase its fleet two-fold from 50 planes currently to 120 by 2020. Speaking to Moroccan media, RAM’s CEO Abdelhamid Addou stressed that the new plane acquisition plan is part of the company’s strategy to boost its share of the African air transport market. In […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), will add four Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners to its fleet for a total cost of $1.1 bln. RAM already operates five 787-8 Dreamliners. The new Boeing planes will help the airline expand in South America, North America, the Middle East and Europe. “Our vision is to be the leading […]
Morocco’s flag carrier RAM said it will sue the Algerian foreign minister in a court in Paris over his defamatory statements accusing the airline of carrying other things than passengers, in an allusion to cannabis. French TV channel M6 and Moroccan news website le360 confirmed that the company has brought the case against Algeria’s FM […]
Morocco’s Flag Carrier, Royal Air Maroc, has vehemently rejected the disrespectful statements pronounced by Algeria’s Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who accused the company of carrying something other than passengers in an allusion to drugs. RAM said in a statement that the Algerian foreign minister’s blunder “reveals a complete ignorance of the air sector which is […]
US bound passengers flying from Morocco will be exempted from the US restrictions on carrying laptops and other large electronic devices in aircraft cabins as of July 13, Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc said. The lift of the laptop ban on the Moroccan airline, which is the only carrier to operate direct flights […]
Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is to launch as of July 10 two new flights to the port city of Al Hoceima, in the restive Rif region at the request of the tourism ministry. The two new flight routes; Casablanca-Al Hoceima and Tangier-Al Hoceima will be operational next Monday, in a move to […]
Efforts by Morocco’s flag carrier RAM to offer better services to its customers were rewarded as the company won for the fourth year in a row Africa’s best regional airlines award delivered by Skytrax, the world’s leading airline and airport rating agency. “The Award is illustrative of the efforts undertaken by the Moroccan flag carrier […]
Morocco’s flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc, said that it maintains its five weekly flights to Doha although it cancelled flights transiting through Doha Airport to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. The announcement was made on the backdrop of an unfolding crisis after several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt cut […]