Marrakesh Menara Airport

Marrakesh Menara Airport (Berber languages: ⴰⵣⴰⴳⵯⵣ ⵏ ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ ⵎⵉⵏⴰⵕⴰ, Arabic: مطار مراكش المنارة, French: Aéroport de Marrakech-Ménara, IATA: RAK, ICAO: GMMX) is an international airport serving Marrakesh,^[2] 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.^[3]

Marrakesh Menara Airport مطار مراكش المنارة (Arabic) ⴰⵣⴰⴳⵯⵣ ⵏ ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ ⵎⵉⵏⴰⵕⴰ (Berber languages) Aéroport de Marrakech-Ménara (French)
IATA: RAK ICAO: GMMX
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Owner	Royal Moroccan Air Force
Operator	ONDA
Serves	Marrakesh-Safi
Location	Marrakesh, Morocco
Focus city for	easyJet Royal Air Maroc Transavia France
Operating base for	Ryanair TUI fly Belgium
Elevation AMSL	1,545 ft / 471 m
Coordinates	31°36′25″N 008°02′11″W
Map
RAK Location of airport in Morocco
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 3,100 10,170 Asphalt
Statistics
Aircraft movements (2023) 48,150 Passengers (2024) 9,300,000 Passenger change 23-24 34%
Source:[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.^{[citation needed]}

Facilities

Check-in hall

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^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[3] 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.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens
Aer Lingus	Dublin[6]
Air Arabia	Dakhla[7][better source needed], Fès[8][better source needed]
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga[9]
Air Europa	Madrid[10]
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle[11] Seasonal: Nice[12]
Air Transat	Montréal–Trudeau[13]
Alexandria Airlines	Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh[14]
Animawings	Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni[15]
Arkia	Tel Aviv[16]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna[17]
Binter Canarias	Gran Canaria (ends 4 May 2025) Seasonal: Funchal,[18] Tenerife–North[19]
British Airways	London–Gatwick,[20] London–Heathrow[21]
Delta Air Lines	Seasonal: Atlanta (begins 25 October 2025)[22]
Discover Airlines	Frankfurt,[23] Munich[24][25]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse,[26] Birmingham,[27] Bordeaux,[26] Bristol,[28] Geneva,[26] Lisbon,[29] Liverpool,[27] London–Gatwick,[30] London–Luton,[31] London–Southend,[32][33] Lyon,[26] Málaga,[34] Manchester,[35] Milan–Malpensa,[36] Nantes,[26] Naples,[37] Nice,[26] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[38] Porto[39] Seasonal: Amsterdam,[40] Belfast–International,[27] Edinburgh (begins 3 May 2025),[41] Glasgow[27]
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zuricha[42]
El Al	Tel Aviv[43]
European Air Charter	Seasonal charter: Sofia[44]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf[45]
Iberia	Madrid[46]
Jet2.com[47]	Birmingham,[48] Glasgow,[49] London–Stansted,[50] Manchester,[51] Newcastle upon Tyne[52] Seasonal: Leeds/Bradford (begins 3 October 2025)[53]
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin (begins 29 October 2025)[54]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[55]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen[56] Seasonal: Helsinki,[57] Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda[58]
Play	Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík[59]
Qatar Airways	Doha[60]
Royal Air Maroc	Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels,[61] Casablanca,[62] Lyon, Marseille,[63] Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[64] Paris–Orly,[65] Toulouse Seasonal: Medina
Royal Air Maroc Express	Casablanca[62]
Ryanair	Alicante,[26] Barcelona,[26] Beauvais,[26] Bergamo,[66] Berlin,[26] Bordeaux[67][better source needed], Brussels,[68] Châlons-Vatry,[26] Charleroi,[26] Cologne/Bonn,[26] Dole,[69] Dublin,[69] Edinburgh,[70] Eindhoven,[26] Errachidia,[71] Faro,[71] Fez,[71] Girona,[72] Gran Canaria,[26] Hahn,[26] Lisbon,[26] London–Stansted,[69] Madrid,[26] Manchester,[69] Marseille,[26] Milan–Malpensa,[71] Naples,[26] Nimes,[26] Oujda,[71] Perpignan,[26] Pisa,[26] Porto,[73] Rome–Ciampino,[69] Santander,[26] Seville,[26] Stockholm–Arlanda,[72] Tangier,[71] Tetouan,[71] Toulouse,[26] Tours,[26] Treviso,[74] Turin,[26] Valencia,[26] Weeze,[26] Zaragoza[26] Seasonal: Kraków,[75] Lanzarote,[71] La Rochelle,[71] Limoges,[26] Palma de Mallorca,[76] Tenerife–South[71]
Saudia	Seasonal: Jeddah[77]
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva[78]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon[79]
Transavia	Amsterdam,[80] Bordeaux,[81] Brest,[82] Brussels,[83] Eindhoven,[84] Lyon,[85] Montpellier,[85] Nantes,[85] Paris–Orly,[86] Rennes[87] Seasonal: Boa Vista, Dakar–Diass,[88] Marseille,[89] Praia,[88] Sal, São Vicente[88]
TUI Airways[90]	Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal: Bristol
TUI fly Belgium[91]	Bologna, Brussels,[92] Lille, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam[93]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[94]
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark[95]
Volotea	Nantes,[96] Strasbourg[97] Seasonal: Bilbao,[98] Bordeaux,[99] Lille,[100] Lyon[101]
Vueling	Barcelona[102] Seasonal: Bilbao,[103] Paris–Orly[103]
Wizz Air	Budapest,[104] London–Gatwick,[105] Milan–Malpensa, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni,[106] Rome–Fiumicino[107]

Notes

^a 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.
^b Flights from Boa Vista and Sal to Marrakech operate as round trips that start and end at Paris Orly Airport.
^c Flights from Dakar to Marrakech operate as round trips that start and end at Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport.

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at RAK airport. See Wikidata query.

Item	2018	2017	2016	2014[108]	2007[109]	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
Aircraft movements[110]					29,246	24,613	20,689	16,112	13,843	13,078
Passengers[111][112]	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)[113]					1555.07	1307.99	2000.40	2286.86	2092.99	2197.70