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The national company Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will restore, as of September 12, its direct air route linking Mohammed V airport in Casablanca and Hamad International airport in Doha (Qatar). Suspended since March 2020 due to the health crisis, this line will be resumed at the rate of one flight per day, it said in a press release.
The flights will be operated by Boeing 787-9 with a capacity of 302 seats, including 26 in Business class. The departure will be from Mohammed V-Casablanca airport at 2:45 p.m. for an arrival in Doha at 12:15 a.m. the next day, while the departure from Doha is scheduled for 2:15 a.m. to arrive in Casablanca at 8:10 a.m.
Quoted by the press release, the CEO of Royal Air Maroc insisted on “the importance of this strategic partnership which will provide customers with more connections” both to Asian destinations by Qatar Airways and to African destinations. of the national company. Hamid Addou also indicates that “this partnership will make it possible to offer additional advantages” to customers in terms of “quality of travel and service on board the planes of the two companies and on the most prestigious alliance network in the world to which they are affiliates, in this case oneworld”.
The press release recalls that RAM will now be the only company to operate a direct line between Casablanca and Doha, supported by a code-sharing agreement with shared passenger and freight capacity with Qatar Airways, thus strengthening the strategic cooperation signed in 2015 between the two operators. This partnership will now make it possible to offer many more advantages to the customers of the two oneworld member airlines thanks to the optimized connections of their respective networks between the African and Asian continents.
“This connection will allow Royal Air Maroc to fully play its role of transporting supporters of the national football team to facilitate their travel, as well as fans of this sport in Africa, during the 22nd edition of the World Cup which will take place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18.