Flying to Casablanca

Casablanca Airport

Casablanca Airport is the country's busiest in terms of traffic, ahead of Marrakech, with numerous connections including long-haul flights. It is also the hub (main hub) for the national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Air Arabia.

Name: Mohammed V Airport

IATA code: CMN

Hub: Air Arabia and Royal Air Maroc.

Number of terminals: 2

Passenger capacity/year: 16.4 million.

Passenger traffic: 8,180,083 (2015).

Distance from city centre: 25 km south of the city.

Website: http://www.onda.ma

Services

Sleeping at the airport

Transport to the city centre

Other nearby airports

Rabat-Salé Airport is around a hundred kilometres from Casablanca. Marrakech Airport is over 200 km away.

Airlines and destinations

Casablanca is served by around thirty airlines from several dozen cities in Europe, North and West Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Low-cost and charter flights are relatively few; the airport and city are primarily focused on scheduled traffic.

Domestic

Around fifteen Moroccan cities are served by regular flights (two or three others seasonally) by RAM or its subsidiary RAM Express: Agadir, Al Hoceima, Beni Mellal, Dakhla, Essaouira, Fès, Laayoune, Marrakech, Nador, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Rabat, Tangier, Tétouan.

Europe

Germany: Berlin (RAM) + Cologne (Germanwings) + Frankfurt (Lufthansa, RAM) + Munich (RAM).

England: London (Air Arabia, RAM).

Belgium: Brussels (Air Arabia, RAM) + Charleroi (Jetairfly).

Spain: Barcelona (Air Arabia, RAM, Vueling) + Madrid (Iberia, RAM) + Malaga (RAM) + Valencia (RAM). Also, Gibraltar (RAM)

France: Beauvais (Jetairfly) + Bordeaux (Jetairfly, RAM) + Lyon (Air Arabia, Jetairfly, RAM) + Marseille (Air France, Jetairfly, RAM) + Metz/Nancy (Jetairfly) + Montpellier (Air Arabia) + Mulhouse (Air Arabia) + Nantes (RAM) + Nice (RAM) + Paris CDG (Air France, easyJet, RAM) + Paris Orly (Air France, Air Mediterranée, Jetairfly, RAM, Transavia, Vueling) + Strasbourg (RAM) + Toulouse (Air Arabia, Air France, Jetairfly, RAM).

Italy: Bergamo (Air Arabia) + Bologna (Air Arabia, Jetairfly, RAM) + Milan (easyJet, RAM) + Rome (Alitalia, RAM) + Turin (Air Arabia, RAM) + Venice (Air Arabia).

Netherlands: Amsterdam (Air Arabia, RAM, Transavia).

Portugal: Lisbon (RAM, TAP Portugal).

Russia: Moscow (RAM).

Scandinavia: Copenhagen (RAM) + Stockholm (RAM).

Switzerland: Basel/Mulhouse (Air Arabia), Geneva (RAM) + Zurich (RAM).

Turkey: Istanbul (Air Arabia, RAM, Turkish Airlines).

Africa (excluding Morocco)

Algeria: Algiers (Air Algérie, RAM) + Oran (Air Algérie).

Canary Islands: Gran Canaria (Naysa) + Las Palmas (RAM) + Tenerife (RAM).

Egypt: Cairo (EgyptAir, RAM)

Mauritania: Nouakchott (Mauritania Airlines, RAM)

Tunisia: Sfax (Syphax Airlines) + Tunis (RAM, Tunisair).

Other Africa: RAM has an extensive network across West Africa, serving around thirty cities: Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Bamako, Banjul, Bissau, Brazzaville, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Freetown, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lomé, Luanda, Malabo, Monrovia, N'Djamena, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire, Praia, Yaoundé.

Middle East

Saudi Arabia: Jeddah (Flynas, RAM, Saudia) + Riyadh (RAM, Saudia).

United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi (Etihad) + Dubai (Emirates, RAM).

Lebanon: Beirut (RAM).

Qatar: Doha (Qatar Airways)

Americas

Brazil: São Paulo (RAM).

United States: New York JFK (RAM).

Quebec: Montreal (RAM).

Choosing your flight

From France, Switzerland, and Belgium

Price range: 150/400 €.

Flight duration (direct): 2h30 to 3h00.

There is a wide choice overall, with scheduled and some low-cost flights. In all cases, direct flights are preferable. However, if you are flexible, you might also consider flights (especially low-cost ones) arriving at the nearby airport Rabat, or even occasionally Marrakech with its many charter and low-cost flights.

From elsewhere

Quebec

Montreal is connected directly to Casablanca by RAM for around CAD 1,500 minimum round trip. In a way, this offers good value compared to other scheduled flights, all of which transit through Europe. Even though some of these may be slightly cheaper (CAD 1,200 round trip), the detour and sometimes lengthy layovers reduce their appeal.

If you do want to transit through Europe, it is better to opt for Air Transat transatlantic flights before continuing to Casablanca with one of the various airlines departing from France or elsewhere. By carefully choosing your dates, you may sometimes complete the entire journey for under CAD 1,000.

Elsewhere

Thanks to RAM, Casablanca has good connections to and from West Africa, and with Gulf carriers, the Middle East and beyond to Asia. It is also in Casablanca that the vast majority of domestic flights in Morocco converge.