Marrakesh Menara Airport

Marrakesh Menara Airport
Aéroport Marrakech Ménara
مطار مراكش المنارة
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator ONDA and Royal Air Force
Location Marrakesh, Morocco
Focus city for Royal Air Maroc&Ryanair
Elevation AMSL 1,545 ft / 471 m
Coordinates 31°36′25″N 008°02′11″W / 31.60694°N 8.03639°W / 31.60694; -8.03639Coordinates: 31°36′25″N 008°02′11″W / 31.60694°N 8.03639°W / 31.60694; -8.03639
Map
RAK

Location of airport in Morocco

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 3,100 10,170 Asphalt
Statistics (2008, 2014)
Aircraft movements (2008) 31,523
Passengers (2014) 4,034,410
Freight (tons) (2008) 1,512.55

Marrakesh Menara Airport (Berber: 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-Tensift-El Haouz 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 4 million passengers in 2014.[1]

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.[4]

Facilities

Terminal interior

Terminal

Menara Airport has two passenger terminals housed in one large building. A third terminal is being built.[5] The existing T1/T2 offer a space of 42.000 m2 and has a designed capacity of 4.5 million passengers/year. The separate freight-terminal has 340m2 covered space[6] 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.[7]

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
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana
Air Arabia Maroc Fez [8], Frankfurt,[9], London-Gatwick (begins 1 November 2017), Montpellier, Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 31 October 2017), Pau[10]
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle[11]
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
Seasonal: Tenerife-North[12]
British Airways London-Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Condor Düsseldorf (begins 10 November 2017), Frankfurt (begins 10 November 2017), Hannover (begins 10 November 2017), Munich (begins 14 November 2017)
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
Charter: Oslo-Gardermoen
easyJet Bordeaux, Bristol (ends 24 October 2017), London-Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings 		Cologne/Bonn[13]
Eurowings
operated by Air Berlin 		Düsseldorf (begins 24 October 2017),[14] Munich (begins 3 November 2017)[14]
Iberia Madrid
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich[15]
Luxair Luxembourg
Mahan Air Charter: Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Niki Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle Stockholm-Arlanda
Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen
Norwegian Air Shuttle
operated by Norwegian Air International 		Copenhagen
Seasonal: Helsinki (begins 4 November 2017),[16] Madrid
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Air Maroc Bordeaux, Casablanca, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Orly, Toulouse
Seasonal: Medina
RAM Express Casablanca
Ryanair Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Budapest (begins 30 October 2017),[17] Cologne/Bonn (begins 30 October 2017),[17] Krakow (begins 30 October 2017),[17] Dole, Eindhoven, Hahn, Hamburg (begins 30 October 2017), Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Nimes (begins 2 November 2017),[17] Perpignan (begins 31 October 2017),[17] Poitiers, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Santander (begins 30 October 2017),[17] Seville, Tours, Treviso (begins 29 October 2017),[17] Valencia, Weeze
Saudia Seasonal: Jeddah, Medina
SunExpress Deutschland Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Agadir, Brussels
Thomson Airways Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia Agadir, Amsterdam, Eindhoven (begins 1 November 2017), Munich (ends 24 October 2017)
Transavia France Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Orly
TUI fly Belgium Bologna, Bordeaux, Brest, Brussels, Cuneo, Naples (begins 1 November 2017) , Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Turin (begins 4 November 2017)
Seasonal: Deauville, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Metz/Nancy, Nantes, Strasbourg
Turkish Airlines Charter: Istanbul Atatürk
Vueling Barcelona

Statistics

Item 2014 [18] 2007[19] 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Aircraft movements[20] 29,246 24,613 20,689 16,112 13,843 13,078
Passengers[21] 4,034,410 3,050,916 2,648,742 2,195,899 1,667,267 1,368,281 1,349,363
Freight (tons)[22] 1555.07 1307.99 2000.40 2286.86 2092.99 2197.70

References

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Marrakech". ONDA. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
  2. 1 2 Airport information for GMMX from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  3. ↑ Airport information for RAK at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ↑ File:Atcroutes-1sep1945.jpg
  5. ↑ ONDA website:Investment program 2011, visited 10 June 2012
  6. ↑ ONDA Website: Presentation RAK, visited 10 June 2012
  7. ↑ ONDA website on the VIP service, visited 17 March 2012
  8. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Air Arabia Maroc expands Fez routes from June 2017".
  9. ↑ "Air Arabia Maroc Adds Marrakesh - Frankfurt Service from Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  10. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Air Arabia Maroc Adds Pau Route from April 2016". Routesonline.
  11. ↑ Rédaction, La. "Air France lance Marrakech et Porto au départ de Paris CDG".
  12. ↑ "Aviso". noticias.terra.es.
  13. ↑ "Günstige Flüge ab 16,99 €* - Eurowings".
  14. 1 2 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Eurowings new W17 routes as of 04MAY17".
  15. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Lufthansa Adds Munich - Marrakech Link in W16".
  16. ↑ Norwegian to open new connection from Helsinki to Marrakech lentoposti.fi (in Finnish). Retrivied 21 June 2017
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Ryanair W17 new routes as of 05MAR17".
  18. ↑ Source 2008 details: ONDA site
  19. ↑ Source 2007 details: ONDA site
  20. ↑ Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine., PDF document
  21. ↑ Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine., PDF document
  22. ↑ Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine., PDF document

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