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.
While Southern Africa’s Comair, which flies as a franchisee of British Airways, has been an oneworld affiliate member since the alliance launched in February 1999, Royal Air Maroc will be oneworld’s first full member from Africa. It will also be the alliance’s first new full member airline signed since 2012.
Royal Air Maroc is today the largest unaligned carrier in Africa. In 2017, it carried 7.3 million passengers 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 Madrid, Doha, London Heathrow, Moscow Domodedovo, New York JFK and Sao Paulo. Its current schedule 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
Royal Air Maroc works already with some of the oneworld airlines, such as Iberia. Both airlines have a code-share agreement on the route Madrid-Casablanca. Additionally, the Moroccan airline is a partner of Iberia Plus. The cardholders of Iberia’s loyalty programme can earn and redeem Avios on Royal Air Maroc flights.
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