Marrakesh Menara Airport

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox airport Marrakesh Menara Airport (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Airport codes) is an international airport serving Marrakesh,<ref name="WAD">Template:Cite web</ref> 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, some of the Arab world nations and from 2024, flights from North America. The airport served over 6.3 million passengers in 2019.<ref name="ONDA-Marrakech">Template:Cite web</ref>

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.Template:Citation needed

Facilities

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Check-in hall

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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<ref>ONDA Website: Presentation RAK, visited 10 June 2012</ref> The air terminals (1 and 2) are Template:Convert 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.<ref>ONDA website on the VIP service, visited 17 March 2012</ref>

Runway and apron

Aircraft parking space of Template:Convert supports up to fourteen Boeing 737s and four Boeing 747s. The cargo terminal is Template:Convert of covered space.<ref name="ONDA-Marrakech" /> The paved runway is laid out in the direction 10/28 is Template:Convert. 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.<ref name="ONDA-Marrakech" />

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Marrakesh Menara Airport: Template:Airport destination list

Notes

Template:Note On selected days, this flight operates from Marrakesh to Zurich via Agadir. However, this carrier does not have rights to transport passengers solely between Marrakesh and Agadir.
Template:Note Flights from Boa Vista and Sal to Marrakech operate as round trips that start and end at Paris Orly Airport.
Template:Note Flights from Dakar to Marrakech operate as round trips that start and end at Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport.

Statistics

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Item	2018	2017	2016	2014<ref>Source 2008 details: ONDA site Template:Dead link</ref>	2007<ref>Source 2007 details: ONDA site Template:Dead link</ref>	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
Aircraft movements<ref>Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA Template:Webarchive, PDF document</ref>					29,246	24,613	20,689	16,112	13,843	13,078
Passengers<ref>2018 details from: Overview movements aircraft MA, PDF document</ref><ref>Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA Template:Webarchive, PDF document</ref>	5,300,000	4,359,865	3,894,227	4,034,410	3,050,916	2,648,742	2,195,899	1,667,267	1,368,281	1,349,363
Freight (tons)<ref>Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA Template:Webarchive, PDF document</ref>					1555.07	1307.99	2000.40	2286.86	2092.99	2197.70