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Royal Air Maroc has launched its longest non-stop service from Casablanca to Beijing Daxing. This marks the airline's only Asian route, excluding the Middle East, and resumes a connection briefly available before the pandemic. The service began on January 20, coinciding with Shanghai Airlines' new flights from Shanghai to Marseille and Casablanca.
The route covers 5,451 nautical miles (10,096 km) as the crow flies but is longer in practice due to avoiding Russian airspace. It is Africa's second-longest non-stop link to China after Air China's Johannesburg-Shenzhen service. Among all non-stop flights from Africa to Asia, it ranks third longest.
Royal Air Maroc operates this route three times weekly using a Boeing 787-9 aircraft with 302 seats. The airline now has 11 Boeing 787s in its fleet. The inaugural flight used an aircraft registered as CN-RGY.
