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On June 24, Royal Air Maroc began operations at London Stansted Airport, marking its entry into the UK's fourth-busiest airport. This development allows the oneworld airline to connect its Casablanca hub with four UK airports: London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, and Manchester. The airline is set to offer a record 22 weekly departures in July, which will increase to 25 when including flights from Rabat to Gatwick.
According to Cirium Diio data, this is Royal Air Maroc's first operation at Stansted. Previously, in 2009, Air Arabia Maroc briefly served the Essex market. The new route between Casablanca and Stansted spans 1,162 nautical miles (2,150 km) each way and will operate until September 14 with three weekly flights aboard a Boeing 737-800. These services are intended to better serve the Moroccan diaspora in North and East London.
The schedule for Stansted differs from Royal Air Maroc's other UK routes. With a departure time of 03:00 from Casablanca, these flights do not connect with the airline's broader network across Western and Central Africa. Instead, they focus on point-to-point traffic while freeing up capacity on other London routes for transfer passengers. Between May 2024 and April 2025, there were approximately 110,000 round-trip local passengers traveling between London and Casablanca.
