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Mohammed V International Airport
Aéroport international Mohammed V
مطار محمد الخامس الدولي
Inside the main terminal IATA: CMN – ICAO: GMMN Location of airport in Morocco
CMNSummary Airport type Public Operator ONDA Serves Casablanca, Morocco Location Nouasseur Hub for - Air Arabia Maroc
- Jet4you
- Regional Air Lines
- Royal Air Maroc
Elevation AMSL 656 ft / 200 m Coordinates 33°22′02″N 007°35′23″W / 33.36722°N 7.58972°W Website Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 17L/35R 3,720 12,205 Asphalt 17R/35L 3,720 12,205 Asphalt Statistics (2009, 2010) Aircraft movements (2009) 69,119 Passengers (2010) 7,245,508 Freight (tons) (2009) 53,469 Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2] Mohammed V International Airport (IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN) (French: Aéroport international Mohammed V / Arabic: مطار محمد الخامس الدولي / transliterated: Matar Muhammad al-Khamis ad-Dowaly) is an airport operated by ONDA (National Airports Office). Located in Province of Nouaceur, a suburb 30 km south-east of Casablanca, it is the busiest airport in Morocco with almost 7.25 million passengers passing through the airport in 2010.[3] It was named after the late Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco.
The airport is the hub of Morocco's flag carrier Royal Air Maroc, Jet4you, Air Arabia Maroc and Regional Air Lines. The airport was named after King Mohammed V of Morocco and is twinned with the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Yaser Arafat International Airport.
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History
Origins
The Casablanca Mohammed V Airport was originally built by the United States in early 1943 during World War II as an auxiliary airfield for Casablanca's Anfa Airport and was named Berrechid Airfield. The airfield handled various military transports as a stopover en-route to Port Lyautey Airfield or to Marrakech Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route. In addition, flights were flown across the Atlantic to the Azores on the Mid-Atlantic route which connected to Nova Scotia or East Coast United States airfields.[4]
In addition to its transport mission, the airfield supported the North African Campaign with the Twelfth Air Force 68th Reconnaissance Group operating photo-recon versions of the P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang from the airfield. Elements of the 68th first arrived at Angads Airport in Oujda in November 1942 and moved to Berrechid in March 1943 upon its completion. It flew both antisubmarine missions over the Atlantic and photo-recon combat missions over German-held territory from the airfield until early September when it moved east to Massicault Airfield in Tunisia. With the end of the war in 1945, the airfield was turned over to the civil government.
During the Cold War of the early and middle 1950s, the airfield was reopened as Nouasseur Air Base and was used as a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command staging area for B-47 Stratojet bombers pointed at the Soviet Union. These operations later moved to Ben Guerir Air Base.
With the destabilisation of French government in Morocco, and Moroccan independence in 1956, the government of Mohammed V wanted the US Air Force to pull out of the SAC bases in Morocco, insisting on such action after American intervention in Lebanon in 1958. The United States agreed to leave as of December 1959, and was fully out of Morocco in 1963. SAC felt the Moroccan bases were much less critical with the long range of the B-52, and with the completion of the Spanish bases in 1959.
Even today, most locals still refer to the airport simply as "Nouasseur", this comes from the name of the suburb where it is located.
Terminals, airlines and destinations
Terminal 2
Exit stamp from airport.Mohammed V Airport has three terminals:
- Terminal 1
- Terminal 2
BRUCRLFRABSLSXBCGNTXLAMSWAWSVOPARMPLLYSBODNTEGVAZRHMADOPOISTLISLONMRSMXPTRNTUNALGORNVCEBLQFCOBCNVLCAGPEuropean Destinations from Casablanca
AgadirAl HoceimaErrachidiaEssaouiraFésGuelmimMarrakechNadorOuarazazateOujdaTángerTan-TanTetúanAll Domestic Destinations from Casablanca
ABJACCBKOBGFBJLCAIBEYJEDVILEUNAUHDXBRUHCRYBZVCOODLAFNADKRFIHLOSLBVSSGROBNIMNKCTIPOUAPNRNSIAfrican & Near East Destinations from Casablanca
MontrealNew YorkAll Transatlantic Destinations from CasablancaAirlines Destinations Terminal Air Algérie Algiers, Oran 1 Air Arabia Maroc Alexandria, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Brussels, Cuneo, Fez, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Orio al Serio, Montpellier, Nador, Tangier, Tunis, Venice-Marco Polo, Venice-Treviso [resumes 5 December]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Málaga, Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle2 Air France Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle 2 Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 2 bmi London-Heathrow 2 EasyJet Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle 2 EgyptAir Cairo 2 Emirates Dubai 2 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 2 Iberia Madrid 2 Jet4you Barcelona, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels South-Charleroi, Geneva, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, Toulouse 2 Jetairfly Brussels, Brussels South-Charleroi 2 Lufthansa Frankfurt 2 Mauritania Airlines International Nouakchott 2 Qatar Airways Doha, Tunis 2 Royal Air Maroc Agadir, Algiers, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Bologna, Cairo, Dakhla, Fez, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Laayoune, Madrid, Málaga, Milan-Malpensa, Montréal-Trudeau, New York-JFK, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Tangier, Tripoli [resumes 21 November], Turin, Tunis, Valencia 1 Royal Air Maroc Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Bangui, Banjul, Berlin-Tegel, Bissau [begins 13 December], Bordeaux, Brazzaville, Brussels, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Frankfurt, Freetown/Lungi, Geneva, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lisbon, Lomé, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Luanda [begins 1 December], Malabo, Marseille, Marrakech, Monrovia, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Nantes, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Pointe Noire, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Yaoundé
Seasonal: Al-Hoceima, Kano, Medina, Tétouan2 RAM Express Al Hoceima, Agadir, Dakhla, Essaouira, Goulimime, Ifrane, Lisbon, Málaga, Marrakech, Nador, Oujda, Tangier, Tan Tan, Tunis
Seasonal: Tetuan [begins 24 May 2012]2 Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Riyadh
Seasonal: Dammam
Charter: Medina1 TAP Portugal Lisbon 2 Tunisair Tunis 2 Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 2 Cargo airlines
DHL Airways Boeing 757 at the airportThe main cargo operators are:
Airlines Destinations Air France Cargo Nairobi, Paris-Charles de Gaulle DHL Airways Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Madrid, Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Plus several other destinations Med Airlines Maroc Bamako, Dakar, Lisbon, Paris-Orly, Tangier[5] Royal Air Maroc Cargo Addis Abeba, Algiers, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital [begins 25 June 2012], Brussels, Cairo, Dubai, El Aaiún (Laayoune), Hong-Kong [begins 28 June 2012], Libreville, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Orly, New-York JFK [begins 22 June 2012], Rome-Fiumicino, Recife [begins 7 July 2012], Tangier, Washington-Dulles [begins 24 June 2012], Zaragoza UPS Airlines London-Gatwick, Louisville, Madrid, Newark, Rome-Fiumicino Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul-Atatür, Madrid
*All theses marked Destinations will start with the arriving Boeing 767-300F in 2012.As part of the development of the airport, and since Casablanca is one of the main trading and industrial cities in the southern Mediterranean, the cargo operations will expand in the next few years. A 30,000 sq metre cargo facility opened in 2008, with an annual processing capacity of 150,000 tonnes.
Traffic
Traffic[6] 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Average growth
2004-2009Aircraft movements[7] n/a[8] - 69,119 +1.11% 68,362 -2.5% 70,080 +7.6% 65,111 +9.2% 59,621 +13.9% 52,336 +5.86% Passengers[7] 7,245,508 [9] +13,28 6,395,862 +2.95% 6,209,711 +6.0% 5,858,192 +15.5% 5,071,411 +12.1% 4,456,639 +17.1% 3,803,479 +10.73% Freight (tons)[7] n/a[8] - 53,469 -6.06% 56,919 -6.5% 60,682 +9.3% 55,673 +10.7% 50,285 +6.5% 47,152 +2.79% Passenger Services
Hotels
Casablanca Mohammed V Airport has two airport hotels, the Atlas Hotel which is a 3 star hotel owned by Atlas Hospitality (a subsidiary of the Royal Air Maroc Group) and a hotel inside the transit area of terminal 2 which offers rooms for shorter periods exclusively for transiting passengers.
Incidents and accidents
- On 24 August 1994 a Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crashed near Tizounine while en-route from Agadir to Casablanca Mohammed V airport. The plane crashed with a steep dive in the Atlas mountains. All 40 passengers and 4 crew died in this accident. It is said that the captain disconnected the autopilot and let the plane crash deliberately. The Moroccan Pilots Union challenged these findings.[10]
- On 1 April 1970, a Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle crashed on approach to Casablanca Mohammed V airport when it lost control at a height of about 500 feet. The fuselage broke in two. Sixty one of the 82 passengers and crew were killed.[11]
Transport links
Car
Mohammed V airport can be reached via the A7 Casa-Berchid motorway via Bouskoura. From Rabat use the A3 then the A5.
Rail
The train station is situated at level -1 in the arrivals area of Terminal 1. Trains depart from the airport to Casablanca every hour. The train looks old but it works very well and takes you to AIN SEBAA where you can change to different directions. Service for buying the ticket is efficient and without problems.
Bus
Bus company CTM operates services to Casablanca Mohammed V airport from the city center.
Taxi
The taxi rank is located at level 0 of the arrivals area.
References
- ^ Airport information for GMMN from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for CMN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- ^ http://www.onda.ma/NR/rdonlyres/7E254108-9D67-48EE-9191-B05CDC5E642A/1621/communiqu%C3%A9traficdecembre.pdf
- ^ File:Atcroutes-1sep1945.jpg
- ^ [1]
- ^ Casablanca Airport Passenger Statistics for 2008
- ^ a b c Details 2008-2009 from Overview results, PDF document
- ^ a b For 2010 only passenger numbers available
- ^ Passenger statistics for December 2010 with year-totals 2009 and 2010, visited 25 April 2011
- ^ Aviation Safety Network database on ATR-42 RAM crash, retrieved 5 August 2009
- ^ Aviation Safety Network database on SE-210 RAM crash, retrieved 5 August 2009
External links
- Mohammed V International Airport
- Office National Des Aéroports
- Current weather for GMMN at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for CMN at Aviation Safety Network
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