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Royal Air Maroc Joins Oneworld Mid-2020

by John Ollila
December 5, 2018
Reading Time: 4 mins read

Oneworld Alliance today announced that Moroccan flag carrier Royal Air Maroc would join the alliance as 14th member sometime around mid-2020.

Oneworld Royal Air Maroc Logo

The last airline to join the alliance was SriLankan back in May 2014 (US Airways also in March the same year). Malaysia Airlines and Qatar both joined in 2013.

You can access Royal Air Maroc’s website here.

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Here’s Royal Air Maroc’s route map:

Royal Air Maroc Route Map

Note that this is from the airline’s website and not sure how current it is. The airline mainly serves destinations in Europe and Africa excluding the southernmost countries. Royal Air Maroc also flies to Canada, United States and Brazil in the Americas.

Royal Air Maroc U

Here’s the press release from Oneworld:

Royal Air Maroc is to join oneworld®, adding one of Africa’s leading and fastest growing airlines to the world’s premier airline alliance.

Its election as a oneworld member designate was announced as the Chief Executives of the alliance’s 13 current member airlines gathered in New York for their year-end Governing Board meeting, just weeks before the alliance celebrates the 20th anniversary of its launch.

Royal Air Maroc is expected to be implemented into oneworld in mid-2020, when it will start flying alongside some of the biggest and best brands in the airline business.  Its regional subsidiary Royal Air Maroc Express will join as a oneworld affiliate member at the same time.

From then, the recruits will offer the full range of oneworld customer services and benefits, with the one million plus members of Royal Air Maroc’s Safar Flyer loyalty programme able to earn and redeem rewards on all oneworld member airlines, and with its top tier members able to use the alliance’s more than 650 airport lounges worldwide.

Until then, it is business as usual for Royal Air Maroc and oneworld and its existing member airlines.

While Southern Africa’s Comair, which flies as a franchisee of British Airways, has been a oneworld affiliate member since the alliance lauched in February 1999, Royal Air Maroc will be oneworld’s first full member from Africa – the only continent, apart from Antarctica, where the alliance has, until now, had no full member.

It will also be the alliance’s first new full member airline signed since 2012 – although Fiji Airways links to the alliance from today as its first oneworld connect partner, the first new membership platform since the alliance was established.

Royal Air Maroc is today the largest unaligned carrier in Africa – with a transformational strategy well underway to develop it quickly into a truly global airline and the continent’s leader in terms of both size and quality.

It carried 7.3 million passengers last year on a fleet of 55 aircraft, with a network that currently connects its Casablanca base with 94 destinations in 49 countries across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America, including oneworld hubs Doha, London Heathrow, Madrid, Moscow Domodedovo, New York JFK and Sao Paulo.

Its schedule today will add 34 new destinations and 21 countries to the oneworld map, taking the alliance’s network to 1,069 airports in 178 countries and territories

Under its ambitious five-year plan, it plans to expand its fleet significantly, carrying 13 million passengers a year across a global network serving 121 destinations in 68 countries.  This will add another 15 destinations and nine countries to the alliance network – giving the alliance a total of 1,084 destinations in 187 countries and territories.

Three established oneworld member airlines – British Airways, Iberia and Qatar Airways – currently serve three destinations in Morocco between them: Casablanca, Marrakech and Tangier.

oneworld Governing Board Chairman Alan Joyce, Group CEO of Qantas, said: “We’re pleased to welcome Royal Air Maroc to oneworld.  Africa is the last major region where oneworld  does not have a  full member airline – and has one of the fastest predicted air travel growth rates over the next few decades.  Royal Air Maroc will deliver greater value for more customers worldwide as we expand our alliance network to a new region.”

oneworld CEO Rob Gurney noted: “When we unveiled our new membership platform oneworld connect in June, we said that in the future oneworld would target as full members large airlines that have a significant presence in the alliance’s prime target market, providing connections between the world’s leading business centres.  Royal Air Maroc is growing into a truly global airline, with its home base Casablanca to be developed into Africa’s leading aviation gateway while also consolidating its place as Africa’s number one financial centre.”

Royal Air Maroc CEO Abdelhamid Addou said: “Royal Air Maroc is excited and honored to have been invited to become oneworld’s wings of Africa.   We look forward to completing our flight on board speedily and smoothly so that we can offer the services and benefits of the world’s best airline alliance to our customers and across our own network as soon as possible.  We will be flying alongside the finest collection of air carriers in the skies, while at the same time making it easier for people all over the world to reach our historic and beautiful part of the world.  This undoubtedly represents one of the most significant landmarks in our airline’s 60-year history and on our journey to establish Royal Air Maroc as the leading airline of Africa.”

Conclusion

When I got a note that they have a new airline joining the alliance that has not previously been part of any, my first thought was either Air Tahiti Nui or Royal Air Maroc. There were some chatter that Alaska had expressed some interest joining as Oneworld Connect partner.

This opens up quite a few new destinations for the alliance in Western and Central Africa, although I am not sure how pleasant the transfer experience in Casablanca is (I have flown into the airport once and out from Marrakesh).

It is always good to have new members in the alliance that fill gaps in the network and Royal Air Maroc certainly does that.

Oneworld Alliance airlines will release their Royal Air Maroc earning charts on the date the airline joins the alliance (has been the case) and some few days late.

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