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Airport Casablanca (Morocco) - Mohammed V

Mohammed V International Airport

Aéroport international Mohammed V


NASA image of Mohammed V International Airport
IATA: CMN ICAO: GMMN
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator ONDA
Location Casablanca
Elevation AMSL 656 ft / m
Coordinates 33°2205N 07°3517W / 33.36806°N 7.58806°W / 33.36806; -7.58806
Website http://www.onda.ma
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17L/35R 12,205 3,720 Asphalt
17R/35L 12,205 3,720 Asphalt

Mohammed V International Airport (IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN) (French: Aéroport international Mohammed V; (Arabic: ; transliterated: Matar Muhammad al-Khamis ad-Dowaly) is an airport operated by ONDA (National Airports Office). Located in Nouasseur, a suburb 30 km south-east of Casablanca, it is the busiest airport in Morocco with over 6.2 million passengers passing through the airport in 2008[1]. It was named after the late Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco.

The airport is the hub of Morocco's flag carrier Royal Air Maroc, Jet4you, Air Arabia Maroc and Regional Air Lines. The airport was named after King Mohammed V of Morocco and is twinned with the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Yaser Arafat International Airport.

Contents

History

Origins

The Casablanca Mohammed V Airport was the site of a former USAF Air base known as Nouasseur Air Base. Even today, most locals still refer to the airport simply as "Nouasseur", this comes from the name of the suburb where it is located.

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a stopover en-route to Port Lyautey Airfield or to Marrakech Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route. In addition, flights were flown across the Atlantic to the Azores on the Mid-Atlantic route which connected to Nova Scotia or East Coast United States airfields.[2]

During the early and middle 1950s, the air base was the United States Air Force's staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union. In the early 1950s storage sites for USAF nuclear weapons were located in French Morocco at Nouasseur, Sidi Slimane, and Ben Guerir. It was for a time a landing site for the Space Shuttle. These operations later moved to Ben Guerir Air Base. With the destabilization of French government in Morocco, and Moroccan independence in 1956, the government of Mohammed V wanted the US Air Force to pull out of the SAC bases in Morocco, insisting on such action after American intervention in Lebanon in 1958. The United States agreed to leave as of December 1959, and was fully out of Morocco in 1963. SAC felt the Moroccan bases were much less critical with the long range of the B-52, and with the completion of the Spanish bases in 1959.

Incidents

On July 1, 1967, a Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie Ilyushin IL-18 which had been diverted to Casablanca because of fog at its original destination of Rabat, crashed 8 miles from the runway on its second attempt to land at Casablanca.

On April 1, 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.

Transport links

Car

Mohammed V airport can be reached via the A7 Casa-Berchid motorway via Bouskoura. From Rabat use the A3 then the A5.

Rail

The train station is situated at level -1 in the arrivals area of Terminal 1. Trains depart from the airport to Casablanca every hour between 06.50 and 22.50. Trains depart from Casablanca to the airport every hour between 06.38 and 22.38. Journey time is half an hour and costs 30 MAD (around 3 USD). the website of the national railroad company ONCF is www.oncf.ma.

Bus

Bus company CTM operates services to Casablanca Mohammed V airport from the city center. Journey time is one hour.

Taxi

The taxi rank is located at level 0 of the arrivals area. The base rate for a journey to Casablanca is 200.00dh.

Passenger Services

Hotels

Casablanca Mohammed V Airport has two airport hotels, the Atlas Hotel which is a 3 star hotel owned by Atlas Hospitality (a subsidiary of the Royal Air Maroc Group) and a hotel inside the transit area of terminal 2 which offers rooms for shorter periods exclusively for transiting passengers.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is closed for renovation and expansion works. Check-in is still open and departures are restricted to Terminal 2.

Terminal 2
Airlines Destinations
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia Maroc Brussels-Charleroi, London-Stansted, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Orio al Serio, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tangier
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino, Milano-Malpensa
Clickair Barcelona
EasyJet Lyon, Madrid, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
EgyptAir Cairo
Emirates Dubai
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi
Hellenic Imperial Airways Athens
Jet4you Barcelona [begins 17 June], Bologna, Brussels-Charleroi, Geneva, Paris-Orly, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Toulouse
Iberia Airlines Madrid
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Malaga, Valencia
Libyan Airlines Tripoli
Lufthansa Frankfurt
MyAir Milan-Orio al Serio [seasonal], Venice-Marco Polo [seasonal]
Qatar Airways Doha, Tripoli
Regional Air Lines Agadir, Al Hoceima, Errachidia, Essaouira, Goulimime, Lisbon, Marrakech, Nador [begins 17 August], Oujda, Tangier, Tan Tan, Villa Cisneros
Royal Air Maroc Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Agadir, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Bissau, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brazzaville, Brussels, Cairo, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Essaouira, Errachidia, Fez, Freetown, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Kano [begins 26 October], Kinshasa, Lagos, London-Heathrow, Libreville, Lille, Lisbon, Lome, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo, Marseille, Monrovia, Marrakech, Nantes, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 21 June], Paris-Orly, Riyadh, Strasbourg, Tangier, Tripoli, Tunis, Toulouse, Yaounde
Saudi Arabian Airlines Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk

Terminal 3

Departures Only

Airlines Destinations
Royal Air Maroc Algiers, Amsterdam, Bologna, Düsseldorf [begins 21 June], Frankfurt, Montreal-Trudeau, Milan-Malpensa, New York-JFK, Rome-Fiumicino, Turin

Cargo airlines

The main cargo operators are:

As part of the development of the airport, and since Casablanca is one of the main trading and industrial cities in the southern Mediterranean, the cargo operations will expand in the next few years. A 30,000 sq meter cargo facility is due to open in 2008, with an annual processing capacity of 150,000 tonnes.

Traffic

2008[1]

Passengers: 6,209,711(+6%)
Movements: 68,362 (-2,5%)
Cargo (tons): 56,918.88(-6.48%)

Historical figures
Traffic 2008[1] %
change		 2007 %
change		 2006 %
change		 2005 %
change		 2004 Average growth
2004-2007
Aircraft movements[3] 68,362 - 2,5 70,080 + 7,6 65,111 + 9,2 59,621 + 13,9 52,336 + 10,2
Passengers[4] 6,209,711 + 6,0 5,858,192 + 15,5 5,071,411 + 12,1 4,456,639 + 17,1 3,803,479 + 15,49
Freight (tons)[5] 56,919 - 6,5 60,682 + 9,3 55,673 + 10,7 50,285 + 6,5 47,152 + 8,9

References

  1. ^ a b c Casablanca Airport Passenger Statistics for 2008
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Details 2002-2006 from ONDA movement report, PDF document
  4. ^ Details 2002-2006 from ONDA passenger report, PDF document
  5. ^ Details 2002-2006 from ONDA freight report, PDF document

External links

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