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Maybe after 5 December mods can remove the ? in the thread title. 
In this thread, there was some speculation on who would be joining oneWorld on 5 December. @moa999 first found a story about it being Royal Air Maroc , and OMAAT has supported it: More Or Less Certain: Royal Air Maroc Joining Oneworld
It it turns out to be true, I think it will be a great addition. Here is their route map (from OMAAT):
Some Frequent Flyer programs put Morocco in their 'Middle East' category, so if you can get to Casablanca on the same miles to get you to the Gulf ports, then a RAM flight up to Europe should be cheap in points, compared to Gulf to Europe. Hopefully, like many of the 'minor' airlines in the alliances, they will have above-average award seat availability.
As OMAAT notes, their B737 has proper business class seats, so flying into Europe its better than 'Eurobusiness', with a regular economy seat with the middle one blocked.
Also a good entry into Africa.
I flew RAM short/mod haul internationally a number of times when I had business in Morocco (economy and business) and they are quite OK.
Unless something radical has happened, their capital city airport, Rabat, is a hole. Casablanca is their main hub and again, I hope there has been some work done, but there are many worse airports. Casablanca itself has few redeeming features for the tourist.
Marrakesh, on the other hand ...
In this thread, there was some speculation on who would be joining oneWorld on 5 December. @moa999 first found a story about it being Royal Air Maroc , and OMAAT has supported it: More Or Less Certain: Royal Air Maroc Joining Oneworld
It it turns out to be true, I think it will be a great addition. Here is their route map (from OMAAT):
Some Frequent Flyer programs put Morocco in their 'Middle East' category, so if you can get to Casablanca on the same miles to get you to the Gulf ports, then a RAM flight up to Europe should be cheap in points, compared to Gulf to Europe. Hopefully, like many of the 'minor' airlines in the alliances, they will have above-average award seat availability.
As OMAAT notes, their B737 has proper business class seats, so flying into Europe its better than 'Eurobusiness', with a regular economy seat with the middle one blocked.
Also a good entry into Africa.
I flew RAM short/mod haul internationally a number of times when I had business in Morocco (economy and business) and they are quite OK.
Unless something radical has happened, their capital city airport, Rabat, is a hole. Casablanca is their main hub and again, I hope there has been some work done, but there are many worse airports. Casablanca itself has few redeeming features for the tourist.
Marrakesh, on the other hand ...
