Mohammed V International Airport

Mohammed V International Airport (French: Aéroport international Mohammed V; Arabic: مطار محمد الخامس الدولي‎, Matar Muhammad al-Khamis ad-Dowaly; Berber: ⴰⵣⴰⴳⵯⵣ ⴰⴳⵔⵖⵍⴰⵏ ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴷ ⵡⵙ5; IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN) is an international airport serving Casablanca, Morocco. Located in Nouaceur Province, it is operated by ONDA (National Airports Office). With just under 8 million passengers passing through the airport in 2014, it was the busiest airport in Morocco and the fourth busiest in Africa. In August 2014, ONDA reported a year-on-year increase of 7.28% passenger traffic, to 918,238. The airport serves as hub for Royal Air Maroc, Jetairfly, Air Arabia Maroc and RAM Express. It is named after King Mohammed V of Morocco.

Mohammed V is one of the six airports in Morocco where ONDA offers its special VIP service Salon Convives de Marque.

History

1940s

The Casablanca Mohammed V Airport was originally built by the United States in early 1943 during World War II as an auxiliary airfield for Casablanca's Anfa Airport and was named Berrechid Airfield.[] The airfield handled diverse military traffic as a stopover en route to Port Lyautey Airfield, and to Marrakech Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar route. In addition, it was the terminus of Mid-Atlantic route transatlantic flights via the Azores to Nova Scotia and airfields on the East Coast of the United States.

In addition to its transportation role, the airfield supported the North African Campaign with the Twelfth Air Force 68th Reconnaissance Group operating photo-reconnaissance versions of the P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang. Part of the 68th first arrived at Angads Airport in Oujda in November 1942 and moved to Berrechid in March 1943 upon its completion. It flew both antisubmarine missions over the Atlantic and photo-reconnaissance combat missions over German-held territory until early September when it moved east to Massicault Airfield in Tunisia. With the end of the war in 1945, the airfield was handed over to the civil government.

1950s

During the Cold War in the early and middle 1950s, the airfield was reopened as Nouasseur Air Base and was used as a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command staging area for B-47 Stratojet bombers pointed at the Soviet Union. These operations later moved to Ben Guerir Air Base.

With the destabilisation of French government in Morocco, and Moroccan independence in 1956, the government of Mohammed V wanted the US Air Force to pull its bases out of Morocco, insisting on such action after American intervention in Lebanon in 1958. The United States agreed to leave in December 1959, and was fully out of Morocco by 1963. The U.S. felt that, with the long range of the B-52 and completion of Spanish bases in 1959, the Moroccan bases were no longer important.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia Maroc Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Bergamo, Bologna, Brussels, Catania, Cuneo, Dakhla, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Lisbon, Lyon, Montpellier, Nador, Naples, Pisa, Prague, Toulouse, Tunis, Venice
Air Canada Montréal–Trudeau
Air Europa Madrid
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta Malta
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
American Airlines Seasonal: Philadelphia (begins June 4, 2020)
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
Corendon Airlines Istanbul
EgyptAir Cairo
Emirates Dubai–International
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi
Gulf Air Bahrain
Iberia Madrid
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Mauritania Airlines Nouakchott, Nouadhibou
Oman Air Muscat
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Air Maroc Abidjan, Accra, Agadir, Algiers, Al-Hoceima, Amman–Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Athens, Bamako, Banjul, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin–Tegel, Bilbao, Bissau, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brazzaville, Boston, Bouarfa, Brussels, Cairo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Cotonou, Dakar–Diass, Dakhla, Doha, Douala, Fes, Frankfurt, Freetown, Geneva, Gran Canaria, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Jeddah, Kinshasa, Laayoune, Lagos, Libreville, Lisbon, Lomé, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Luanda, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Medina, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Monrovia, Montpellier, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow–Domodedovo, Munich, Nantes, Naples, New York–JFK, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Pointe Noire, Porto, Praia, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, Riyadh, Rome–Fiumicino, Sal, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Stockholm–Arlanda, Strasbourg, Tangier, Tétouan, Toulouse, Tunis, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Washington–Dulles, Yaoundé, Zürich
Seasonal: Beni Mellal,
Royal Air Maroc Express Agadir, Al-Hoceima, Essaouira, Fes, Guelmim, Marrakesh, Nador, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Tangier, Tan-Tan, Tétouan
Saudia Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam
Transavia France Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI fly Belgium Charleroi, Paris–Orly, Lille, Metz/Nancy, Bordeaux Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Alicante, , Liège, , Milan-Malpensa, Milan - Bergamo, Madrid, Montpellier,
Tunisair Tunis
Seasonal: Monastir
Turkish Airlines Antalya, Istanbul
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
Air France Cargo Nairobi, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
DHL Airways Brussels, Dakar–Senghor, Leipzig, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Med Airlines Bamako, Dakar–Senghor, Lisbon, Paris–Orly, Tangier
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha
Royal Air Maroc Cargo Addis Ababa, Algiers, Barcelona, Beijing–Capital, Brussels, Cairo, Dubai–International, Frankfurt, El Aaiún, Hong Kong, Libreville, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Orly, New York–JFK, Recife, Rome–Fiumicino, Tangier, Washington–Dulles, Zaragoza
UPS Airlines London–Gatwick, Louisville, Madrid, Newark, Rome–Fiumicino
Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul–Atatürk, Madrid

Traffic

Traffic 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Average growth
2004–2009
Aircraft movements n/a 69,119 +1.11% 68,362 −2.5% 70,080 +7.6% 65,111 +9.2% 59,621 +13.9% 52,336 +5.86%
Passengers 7,245,508 +13,28 6,395,862 +2.95% 6,209,711 +6.0% 5,858,192 +15.5% 5,071,411 +12.1% 4,456,639 +17.1% 3,803,479 +10.73%
Freight (tons) n/a 53,469 -6.06% 56,919 −6.5% 60,682 +9.3% 55,673 +10.7% 50,285 +6.5% 47,152 +2.79%

Ground transportation

Rail

A train service (from 04:00 to 23:00) is available every hour from Casablanca Port station to the Casablanca airport.

Car

  • From Casablanca main access is by A3 Motorway;
  • From Rabat by A1 Motorway through Tit Mellil and Road N9;
  • From Beni Mellal by A4 Motorway;
  • From Marrakech by A3 Motorway exit km 225;
  • From El Jadida by A1 Motorway and A3 Motorway.

Incidents and accidents

  • On 24 August 1994, a Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crashed near Tizounine while en route from Agadir to Casablanca Mohammed V airport. The plane crashed with a steep dive in the Atlas mountains. All 40 passengers and 4 crew died in this accident. Allegedly, the captain disconnected the autopilot and let the plane crash deliberately, but the Moroccan Pilots Union challenged these findings.
  • On 1 April 1970, a Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle crashed on approach to Casablanca Mohammed V airport when it lost control at a height of about 500 feet. The fuselage broke in two. Sixty-one of the 82 passengers and crew were killed.

See also

  • Transport in Morocco

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Сергей Невмержицкий
The best place to charge your phone or notebook before security zone is room named "Bureau des badges visiteurs" on the second floor. Here you can sit down to a chair and found a socket at your back.
Andi Azarias
29 September 2016
Very simple airport with a nice waiting area for domestic transfer flights. Most importantly, there's free wi-fi! There's also a nice little cafe but they don't accept credit cards.
Benjamin Palmer
7 September 2014
This is the most confusing airport I've been in anywhere in the world, terminal 1 & 2 check in and boarding are swapped and domestic boarding is behind an unmarked door
Liisa Laur
2 September 2015
Make sure to visit "Table du Marché" cafe as they have amazing options to eat. Buffee salad bar, casseroles, desserts and else. Supersatisfied and surprised as usually theres nothing to eat in airport
Angel D
26 September 2014
There's a food court on the way to the B gates, everybody is smoking inside but on the other hand all places sell Kronenbourg which I love. Immediately grab a chair since they are very limited
Abdulaziz ????
22 January 2019
Unfortunately you have to tip them all :( from the entrance to exit ????????
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