COVID-19 - Morocco Master Thread

[levelo]

Originally Posted by TheWarden

Announcement from the Moroccan gov. Yesterday it was just the French Embassy saying it.

Today official clarification and GNV confirmed ferries cancelled

It's in the papers here in France. Only freighters will be sailing :

https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/le-maro...2454119_24.php

I got back home last night.
Menara airport was rather tense and packed with Frenchies anxious to board before the deadline. Extra flights were added by Transavia & Air France but some had already been postponed and rescheduled.
In true bandit fashion Easyjet and Ryanair had already decamped leaving hundreds of people stranded.

[Tim Cullis]

All passenger flights to Morocco from all countries suspended for two weeks.

Suspension starts 1 minute to midnight Monday, so effective Tuesday onwards.

Hespress

Morocco World News

I didn't see any mention of Italy in the ferry cancellations in previous posts, it now seems all passenger ferry links are suspended but possibly only for two weeks, according to Medias24

[levelo]

There we go again...

[TheWarden]

The ferries to Italy hadn't been mentioned in earlier posts because up until the announcement a few hours ago they were still running

[Tim Cullis]

Originally Posted by TheWarden

The ferries to Italy hadn't been mentioned in earlier posts because up until the announcement a few hours ago they were still running

Why the 'dōh' ?

[dtour]

All flights to and from Morocco are suspended since midnight. Currently stuck in Marrakech, the consensus is that some special flights will be organized to let people out the country, but no ETA yet.

[Tim Cullis]

The French ambassador has stated that Air France and Transavia are planning one-way repatriation flights but as of yesterday afternoon were awaiting permission from the Moroccan authorities. The flights are intended for Europeans and for others who are looking to transit via France.

EDIT: judging from this link the permission has been granted

[dtour]

Yes, there are some flights available with transavia starting from the 3rd of Dec. just booked one, let’s see if it happens!

[levelo]

Originally Posted by dtour

Yes, there are some flights available with transavia starting from the 3rd of Dec. just booked one, let’s see if it happens!

Sorry to hear.
To be on the safe side try to call their hotline. When I got them on the phone last Thursday evening they told me that they were planning to fly out of Morocco until December 2nd. Air France had flights ' scheduled ' until December 5th.

[TheWarden]

Watching the news over the last 24hours and it seems most eu nations have planned repatriation flight waiting for approval from Morocco at the moment

[dtour]

Ended up buying new flights with Iberia as Transavia could not confirm that the one we got won’t be cancelled. Kind of hoping they will cancel it now so we can get a refund.

Anyway there is a bunch of airlines from different countries now organizing evacuation flights (available to anyone who buys them). some resources below

https://twitter.com/italyincasa/stat...535717896?s=21

https://twitter.com/iberia/status/14...043417089?s=21

Airarabia also had a list of flights on their website but the link was taken down maybe an hour ago.


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[dtour]

Plus the list Tim shared earlier on this thread of course https://www.airfrance.ma/MA/fr/local...s_speciaux.htm


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[levelo]

Originally Posted by dtour

Plus the list Tim shared earlier on this thread of course https://www.airfrance.ma/MA/fr/local...s_speciaux.htm


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Here is the complete list of Air France flights :

[IMG]horaires Air France[/IMG]

A friend of mine got an email from RAM stating the fact that repatriation flights were also scheduled but awaiting final approval.

[TheWarden]

Thats hopeful if you need to get back to Europe,

Looks like the majority are still awaiting Moroccan approval, including Air France flights after the 1st December according to the link posted earlier

[Tim Cullis]

Royal Air Maroc is preparing special flights to Italy, Spain and Canada for Saturday 4 December in addition to already announced flights to France, https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/202...pain-and-italy