Marrakech-Menara Airport

Marrakech-Menara Airport
مطار مراكش المنارة
Aéroport Marrakech Ménara
IATA: RAK – ICAO: GMMX
RAK
Location of Airport in Morocco
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator ONDA and Royal Air Force
Location Marrakech, Morocco
Hub for Royal Air Maroc
Elevation AMSL 1,545 ft / 471 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 3,100 10,170 Asphalt
Statistics (2008, 2009)
Passengers (2009) 2,982,151
Freight (tons) (2008) 1,512.55
Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, ONDA,[1] DAFIF[2][3]

Marrakech-Menara Airport (French: Aéroport Marrakech Ménara, Arabic: مطار مراكش المنارة‎) (IATA: RAK, ICAO: GMMX) is an airport serving Marrakech,[2] the capital city of the Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz region in Morocco. It is an international facility that receives some European flights as well as flights from Casablanca and some of the Arab world nations. The airport served over 3.1 million passengers in the year 2008.[1]

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History

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force 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.[4]

Facilities

Aircraft parking space of 125,000 square metres (1,345,489 sq ft) supports up to fourteen Boeing 737s and four Boeing 747s. The air terminals (1 and 2) are 22,000 m2 (236,806 sq ft) and designed to handle 2,500,000 passengers per year. 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 (almost East-West) is 3,100 by 45 metres (10,171 × 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

Airlines Destinations
Air France Marseille [begins 25 March 2012], Toulouse [begins 1 April 2012]
Air Méditerranée Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Binter Canarias Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
bmi London-Heathrow
British Airways London-Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
easyJet London-Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Madrid, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Europe Airpost Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Paris-Orly, Pau, Toulouse
Hello Basle/Mulhouse
Air Nostrum Madrid
Jet4you Paris-Orly
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse
Jetairfly Agadir, Brussels
Luxair Seasonal: Agadir, Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Royal Air Maroc Bordeaux, Casablanca, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Orly, Toulouse
RAM Express Casablanca
Seasonal: Agadir, Errachidia
Ryanair Beauvais, Bergamo-Orio al Serio, Bologna, Charleroi, Eindhoven, Hahn, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Pisa, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Seville, Valencia, Weeze
Seasonal: Marseille
Strategic Airlines Amsterdam, Tangier
Edelweiss Air Agadir, Zurich
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Agadir, Brussels
Thomson Airways Birmingham [begins 3 May 2012], London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia.com Agadir, Amsterdam
Transavia.com France Agadir, Nantes, Paris-Orly
Vueling Airlines Seasonal: Barcelona

Traffic details

Item 2008[5] 2007[6] 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Aircraft movements[7] 27,369 29,246 24,613 20,689 16,112 13,843 13,078
Passengers[8] 3,100,495 3,050,916 2,648,742 2,195,899 1,667,267 1,368,281 1,349,363
Freight (tons)[9] 1425.47 1555.07 1307.99 2000.40 2286.86 2092.99 2197.70

References

Morocco portal
Aviation portal
World War II portal

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

  1. ^ a b c d "Marrakech". ONDA. http://www.onda.ma/ONDA/An/Espaces/EspacePassagers/LeReseauAeroportuaireONDA/Lesaeroports/Fiches+d%E2%80%99identit%C3%A9+par+a%C3%A9roport/MARRAKECH/. Retrieved 13 March 2010. 
  2. ^ a b Airport information for GMMX from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  3. ^ Airport information for RAK at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  4. ^ File:Atcroutes-1sep1945.jpg
  5. ^ Source 2008 details: ONDA site
  6. ^ Source 2007 details: ONDA site
  7. ^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA, PDF document
  8. ^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA, PDF document
  9. ^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA, PDF document

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