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| IATA: CMN – ICAO: GMMN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | ONDA | ||
| Location | 656 | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 200 ft / m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 17L/35R | 12,205 | 3,720 | Asphalt |
| 17R/35L | 12,205 | 3,720 | Asphalt |
Mohammed V International Airport (IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN) (Arabic: مطار محمد الخامس الدولي; transliterated: Matar Muhammad al-Khamis ad-Dowaly) is an airport in Casablanca, Morocco. It is a hub of Royal Air Maroc. The airport was named after King Mohammed V of Morocco. The Mohammed V Airport 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 the site of a former USAF Air base known as Nouasseur Air Base. Even today, most locals still refer to the airport simply as "Nouasseur", this comes from the name of the suburb where it is located. During the early and middle 1950s, the air base was the United States Air Force's staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union. In the early 1950s storage sites for USAF nuclear weapons were located in French Morocco at Nouasseur, Sidi Slimane, and Ben Guerir. With the destabilization 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.
Incidents
On July 1, 1967, a Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie Ilyushin IL-18 which had been diverted to Casablanca because of fog at its original destination of Rabat, crashed 8 miles from the runway on its second attempt to land at Casablanca. On April 1, 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.
Transport links
Car
Mohammed V airport can be reached via the A7 Casa-Berchid motorway via Bouskoura. From Rabat use the 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 between 06.50 and 22.50. Trains depart from Casablanca to the airport every hour between 06.38 and 22.38. Journey time is half an hour. the website of the national railroad company ONCF is www.oncf.ma.
Bus
Bus company CTM operates services to Casablanca Mohammed V airport from the city center. Journey time is one hour.
Taxi
The taxi rank is located at level 0 of the arrivals area. The base rate for a journey to Casablanca is 200.00dh.
Passenger Services
Hotels
Casablanca Mohammed V Airport has 2 airport hotels, the first one being the Atlas Hotel which is a 3 star hotel owned by Atlas Hospitality (a subsidiary of the Royal Air Maroc Group). There is also a hotel inside the transit area of terminal 2 which offers rooms for shorter periods exlusively for transiting passengers.
Airlines and destinations
Terminal 1
- Air Algérie (Algiers, Oran)
- Air Malta (Catania)
- British Airways
- operated by GB Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Jet4you (Brussels-Charleroi, Paris-Orly, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa)
- Libyan Airlines (Tripoli)
- Mauritania Airways (Nouakchott)
- Royal Air Maroc (Agadir, Algiers, Beirut, Cairo, Dakhla, Errachidia, Essaouira, Fez, Jeddah, Kinshasa [Starting April 2008], Laayoune, Lagos [Starting April 2008], London-Heathrow, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Riyadh, Tangier, Tripoli, Tunis, Valencia)
- Qatar Airways (Doha, Tripoli)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Terminal 2
- Aigle Azur (Paris-Orly)
- Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Marseille)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- easyJet (Lyon, Madrid)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Valencia)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- MyAir (Milan-Bergamo, Venice)
- Royal Air Maroc (Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brazzaville, Brussels, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Freetown, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Libreville, Lille, Lisbon, Lome, Lyon, Madrid, Malabo, Marseille, Monrovia, Nantes, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Yaounde, Zürich)
- Regional Air Lines (Agadir, Al Hoceima, Errachidia, Essaouira, Goulimime, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Malaga, Marrakech, Nador, Oujda, Sevilla, Tangier, Tan Tan, Valencia, Villa Cisneros)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
Terminal 3
- Royal Air Maroc (Amsterdam, Bologna, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Milan-Malpensa, Montreal-Trudeau, New York-JFK, Rome-Fiumicino, Torino)
Cargo airlines
The main cargo operators are:
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 meter cargo facility is due to open in 2008, with an annual processing capacity of 150,000 tonnes.
Traffic
JAN-OCT 2007
- Passengers: 4,848,912 (+14,14%)
- Movements: 58,561 (+7.99%)
- Cargo (tons): 50,720 (+11.48%)
Source [1]
2006
- Passengers: 5,071,411
- Movements: 65,111
- Cargo (tons): 55,673
2005
- Passengers: 4,456,639
- Movements: 59,621
- Cargo (tons): 50,285
2004
- Passengers: 3,803,479
- Movements: 52,336
- Cargo (tons): 47,152
Average Growth Rate 1994-2006
- Passengers: +7.26%
- Movements: +7,05%
- Cargo (tons): +2.98%
Source: ONDA
