Royal Air Maroc resumes direct flight to Doha with Qatar Airways – The Peninsula

Royal Air Maroc resumes direct flight to Doha with Qatar Airways – The Peninsula

Doha: Royal Air Maroc will resume its services between Mohamed Fifth airport in Casablanca and Hamad International Airport (DOH) in Doha with one daily flight, starting today.

It will operate a Boeing 787-9 which has a capacity of 302 seats, including 26 Business class seats. Royal Air Maroc’s operation to Doha was suspended since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Flights will depart from Casablanca at 2.45pm arriving in DOH at 12.15am the next day and departing DOH at 2.15am arriving Casablanca at 8.10am.

The Chairman and CEO of Royal Air Maroc, Hamid Addou insists on “the importance of this strategic partnership which will provide our customers with more connections both to Asian destinations from the extensive network of our partner Qatar Airways, and to our African destinations.”

He also indicated that “this partnership will allow us to offer additional benefits to our customers in terms of quality of travel and service on board the planes of both airlines and on the most prestigious oneworld alliance network to which we are affiliated.”

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, H E Akbar Al Baker said: “We are pleased to further expand our strategic cooperation with the resumption of flights of our fellow oneworld member, Royal Air