On December 24, Morocco extended the closure of its air borders until the end of January 2022, as part of the fight against Covid-19. At the same time, the operation to repatriate nationals stranded abroad was stopped in the face of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. However, if Morocco is again under a health bubble, private planes would circulate freely between Europe and Morocco, according to the newspaper Assabah. The organizers of these particular “charter” flights rent business jets and obtain flight authorizations from a department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the H24 Info site which includes the information.
The amount of a flight varies according to the filling rate of the jet, but can amount to 200,000 dirhams (19,000 euros) per passenger. At this price, not only can you enter the kingdom (and leave it), but you are also exempt from health checks and even the seven-day quarantine. The only obligation for the traveler is to present a complete vaccination schedule and provide their passport three days before the flight.
The sources of the newspaper Assabah considered these private plane flights to be discriminatory between citizens. The cost can be prohibitive, even as other flights are cancelled. Similarly, the reservation seems reserved for a few insiders. It goes badly when you know that there are hundreds of Moroccan nationals who cannot return to the country.
IMPORTANT: EXCEPTIONAL FLIGHTS FROM MOROCCO
We inform our dear Customers that we continue to schedule exceptional flights* from Morocco to Belgium, Canada, Ivory Coast, Spain, USA, France, Italy, Senegal and Turkey, until January 31, 2022. 1 /2
— Royal Air Maroc (@RAM_Maroc) January 16, 2022
But special flights are also provided by the national company Royal Air Maroc to France, Belgium, Canada and many other destinations. These flights, specifies the company, “are subject to exceptional authorization” and will be scheduled until the end of January. But nothing is said about the criteria for obtaining this exceptional authorization. We just invite potential customers to consult the company’s website, which says nothing about it!