Royal Air Maroc to resume direct flight to Doha

Royal Air Maroc to resume direct flight to Doha

Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc is set to resume its services between Mohamed Fifth airport in Casablanca and Hamad International Airport in Doha with one daily flight, starting Monday.

It will operate a Boeing 787-9 aircraft with has a capacity of 302 seats, including 26 in Business Class. Royal Air Maroc’s operations to Doha had been suspended since March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The flight will depart from Casablanca at 2.45pm and arrive in Doha at 12.15am the next day. From Doha, it will depart at 2.15am and arrive in Casablanca at 8.10am.

The chairman and CEO of Royal Air Maroc, Hamid Addou, insists on the importance of the carrier's strategic partnership with Qatar Airways, "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”.

"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," he added.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive HE Akbar al-Baker said, “We are pleased to further expand our strategic