Emirates and Royal Air Maroc have today launched a codeshare partnership, providing more travel
options and connection choices for customers of both airlines between Dubai and Casablanca,
and beyond. Effective later this month, both airlines will place their marketing codes on each other’s flights
between Casablanca and Dubai to a total of 209 combined destinations. The new partnership will
offer customers from both airlines more ways to book and connect their travel between the two
airlines’ networks. The codeshare agreement will also provide customers with more competitive
single-ticket, multi-journey fares and baggage transfers to their final destination. The new
codeshare flights are available for sale through royalairmaroc.com, emirates.com, travel agents,
OTAs and through retail sales offices.
Emirates customers will be able to access 17 destinations in Morocco beyond Casablanca, as well
as to 63 international destinations, including an extensive North, West and Central African network
spanning 25 points. Royal Air Maroc customers can access Emirates’ extensive network beyond
Dubai of over 130 destinations, including 60 cities across the Middle East, United States, West
Asia and the Far East.
Adnan Kazim, Chief Commercial Officer Emirates Airline said: “We are delighted to enhance
our partnership with Royal Air Maroc to a codeshare and offer our customers an unparalleled
selection of destinations across Morocco, and a huge choice of onwards points in Africa. This
partnership will further help strengthen our network connectivity, providing leisure and business
travellers with more choice and convenience when connecting between both of our airlines. We
look forward to developing our relationship together to provide greater benefits for our customers.”
“We are very pleased to conclude this important partnership with Emirates which will contribute to
the reinforcement of our traffic, and will offer our passengers a large set of destinations as well as
a better customer experience thanks to optimized connections and end-to-end check-in, with
international airport assistance within both airlines networks”, underlines Hamid ADDOU,
Chairman and CEO of Royal Air Maroc.
The new codeshare agreement comes as Emirates marks 20 years of service to Casablanca.
Since 2002, Emirates has carried over 3.4 million passengers between Dubai and Casablanca,
supporting the country’s tourism industry, growing trade lanes, and bringing Moroccan culture and
traditions to the world. Emirates currently operates eight weekly flights to Casablanca. Royal Air
Maroc will operate a direct route linking Casablanca to Dubai with four frequencies per week.
This codeshare agreement builds upon Emirates and Royal Air Maroc’s interline partnership that
spans over two decades. With the addition of the Royal Air Maroc codeshare partnership, Emirates’
footprint across Africa now offers customers connectivity to over 184 destinations across the
continent beyond its 21 passenger gateways
