Royal Air Maroc is planning to launch flights to a new destination in the United States, which will also have major implications for that airport, in terms of achieving a fairly rare milestone. While I first covered the carrier’s intent to launch this route a couple of weeks ago, it’s now official, and flights are on sale.
Royal Air Maroc will fly Boeing 787s to Los Angeles
As of June 7, 2026, Royal Air Maroc plans to launch 3x weekly flights between Casablanca (CMN) and Los Angeles (LAX). The oneworld airline plans to operate the service with the following schedule:
AT250 Casablanca to Los Angeles departing 4:00AM arriving 8:20AM
AT251 Los Angeles to Casablanca departing 10:20AM arriving 5:25AM (+1 day)
The 5,990-mile flight will operate on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, and is blocked at 12hr20min westbound and 11hr5min eastbound.
Royal Air Maroc will use a Boeing 787-8 for the route, featuring 274 seats. This includes 18 business class seats and 256 economy class seats. These planes have very strange paired “top/bottom” seats, which I’m not a huge fan of.
As of now the flight is bookable through the end of the IATA summer season (late October 2026), so it remains to be seen if this is a seasonal service, or if the airline has simply not scheduled it out further than that yet. I imagine the timing of this route starting is no coincidence, and is intended to overlap with the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
This route shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, since the airline recently requested permission with the Department of Transportation (DOT) to launch this service.
Royal Air Maroc’s destinations in the United States currently include Miami (MIA), New York (JFK), and Washington (IAD). One certainly wonders what this service will come at the expense of, given Royal Air Maroc’s small long haul fleet. The airline has just five 787-8s and six 787-9s. There has been a lot of talk about the airline ordering more aircraft, but presumably those wouldn’t be delivered in time for this route to launch.
LAX will once again be part of the six continent club!
There aren’t many airports in the world with nonstop, regularly scheduled passenger service to all six continents, given the obvious geographical challenge of that. Once this route launches, LAX will finally once again join that club, as this will connect the airport to Africa.
For what it’s worth, EgyptAir also plans to launch LAX flights next year, so the airport could go from zero to two Africa routes over a very short period.
What’s my take on Royal Air Maroc’s upside with launching this route? To Royal Air Maroc’s credit, the airline has a very low cost structure, given that labor costs in Morocco are substantially lower than we have at US airlines.
Los Angeles to Morocco isn’t necessarily a huge market, but when you add up all the potential one-stop Africa city pairs, it shouldn’t be too tough to make this service work. Given Morocco’s geography, connecting via Casablanca could even be somewhat efficient for some destinations in Europe.
So anyway, this isn’t some huge market, but when you combine the carrier’s low cost structure with the number of one-stop destinations, I’m sure this route would do fine. Then again, is there really much incremental revenue for the extra 2,000 miles of flying compared to service from the East Coast?
Bottom line
As of June 2026, Royal Air Maroc will launch regularly scheduled flights between Casablanca and Los Angeles, using Boeing 787s. We’ve known the airline has been wanting to add this service, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to see flights put on sale. For LAX, this also means the airport will once again offer flights to all six continents with regularly scheduled air service.
What do you make of Royal Air Maroc launching LAX flights?
