Marrakesh Menara Airport

Marrakesh Menara Airport (Berber languages: ⴰⵣⴰⴳⵯⵣ ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ ⵎⵉⵏⴰⵕⴰ, French: Aéroport Marrakech Ménara, Arabic: مطار مراكش المنارة, IATA: RAK, ICAO: GMMX) is an international airport serving Marrakesh,[2] the capital city of the Marrakesh-Safi region in Morocco. It is an international facility that receives several European flights as well as flights from Casablanca and some of the Arab world nations. The airport served over 6.3 million passengers in 2019.[1]

Marrakesh Menara Airport

Aéroport Marrakech Ménara

مطار مراكش المنارة
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
OperatorONDA and Royal Air Force
LocationMarrakesh, Morocco
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL1,545 ft / 471 m
Coordinates31°36′25″N 008°02′11″W
Map
RAK
Location of airport in Morocco
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 3,100 10,170 Asphalt
Statistics (2008, 2018)
Aircraft movements (2008)31,523
Passengers (2019)6.396.394
Freight (tons) (2008)1,512.55
Passenger change 18-19 21,53%

History

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a stopover en route to Casablanca Airfield or to Agadir Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel.

Facilities
Check-in hall
Apron view

Terminal

Menara Airport has two passenger terminals housed in one large building. A third terminal has been built. The existing T1/T2 offer a space of 42,000 m2 and have a designed capacity of 9 million passengers/year. The separate freight-terminal has 340m2 covered space[4] The air terminals (1 and 2) are 22,000 m2 (236,806 sq ft) and designed to handle 2,500,000 passengers per year. Menara is one of the six airports in Morocco where ONDA offers its special VIP service Salon Convives de Marque.[5]

Runway and apron

Aircraft parking space of 125,000 square metres (1,345,489 sq ft) supports up to fourteen Boeing 737s and four Boeing 747s. The cargo terminal is 340 m2 (3,660 sq ft) of covered space.[1] The paved runway is laid out in the direction 10/28 is 3,100 by 45 metres (10,171 ft × 148 ft). It can receive all modern jetliners up to the Boeing 747 in size. The airport is equipped with an ILS Cat II landing system and offers the following radio navigation aids: VOR – DME – NDB.[1]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Maroc Fez,[6] Montpellier, Tangier
Air Europa Madrid[7]
Seasonal: Málaga,[8] Palma de Mallorca[8]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[9]
Animawings Seasonal charter: Bucharest[10]
Austrian Airlines Vienna (resumes 1 October, 2022)
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
Seasonal: Tenerife–North[11]
Blue Air Seasonal: Bucharest
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick,[12] London–Heathrow[13]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[14]
Bulgaria Air Seasonal charter: Sofia[15]
easyJetBasel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Berlin
Edelweiss AirSeasonal: Zurich
El AlTel Aviv[16]
EurowingsCologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Hamburg[17]
Eurowings DiscoverFrankfurt, Munich (begins 14 September 2022)[18]
IberiaMadrid
Israir AirlinesTel Aviv[19]
LufthansaMunich (ends 14 September 2022)
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg
Qatar AirwaysDoha1
Royal Air MarocBarcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels,[20] Casablanca, London–Gatwick,[21] Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris–Orly, Toulouse
Seasonal: Medina
Royal Air Maroc ExpressCasablanca, Ouarzazate
RyanairAlicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Dole, Dublin,[22] Edinburgh,[23] Eindhoven, Gran Canaria,[24] Limoges,[24] Lisbon, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester,[25] Marseille, Naples, Nimes, Perpignan,[26] Pisa, Porto,[27] Rome–Ciampino, Santander,[26] Seville, Toulouse,[28] Tours, Treviso, Turin, Valencia, Weeze, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
SaudiaSeasonal: Jeddah (resumes 30 May 2022)[29]
Swiss International Air LinesGeneva, Zürich
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TransaviaAmsterdam, Eindhoven, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways[30]Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
Seasonal: Bristol
TUI fly Belgium[31]Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lille, Nantes, Paris–Orly, Turin
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[32] Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Marseille, Metz/Nancy, Nice, Rotterdam,[33] Strasbourg, Toulouse
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
VoloteaStrasbourg[34]
VuelingBarcelona,[35] Málaga, Seville[36]
Wizz Air Milan–Malpensa, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: London–Luton, Rome–Fiumicino[37]
  • ^1 : Qatar Airways' flight from Doha to Rabat makes a stop in Marrakech. However, the flight from Rabat to Doha is non-stop.

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at RAK airport. See source Wikidata query.
Item2018201720162014[38]2007[39]20062005200420032002
Aircraft movements[40] 29,24624,61320,68916,11213,84313,078
Passengers[41][42] 5,300,0004,359,8653,894,2274,034,4103,050,9162,648,7422,195,8991,667,2671,368,2811,349,363
Freight (tons)[43] 1555.071307.992000.402286.862092.992197.70

Ground transport

The Spanish bus company Alsa operates regular Route 19 buses every day between Marrakesh Menara airport and both the medina (the stop is in a row of bus stops opposite the Koutoubia Mosque) and the new town.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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  3. Airport information for RAK at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ONDA Website: Presentation RAK, visited 10 June 2012
  5. ONDA website on the VIP service, visited 17 March 2012
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  29. https://www.saudia.com/travel-with-saudia/book-with-us/offers-and-featured-destinations/featured-destinations/saudia-new-destinations
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  31. "- TUI fly was Jetairfly.com". www.tuifly.be.
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  38. Source 2008 details: ONDA site
  39. Source 2007 details: ONDA site
  40. Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, PDF document
  41. 2018 details from: Overview movements aircraft MA, PDF document
  42. Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, PDF document
  43. Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, PDF document

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