RAK Marrakech

How deep the RAK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from RAK. This reads the same 90 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 63of the 90 destinations are flown by one airline
• 63destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 53.3%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at RAK

26 airlines appear on the RAK board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 48 of the 90 destinations, 53.3 per cent of them, and on 36 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 42.2 of the 89.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is easyJet on 23 destinations. 14 of the 26 airlines at RAK appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 48 of the 90 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an RAK sector is usually another Ryanair aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at RAK than the destination count does.

How much of the RAK board is daily

Of the 90 destinations, 27 are flown at least once a day and 63 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the RAK board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: RAK to Stuttgart (STR) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 22.3 of the 89.9 departures a day, 24.8 per cent of the whole board. With 70 per cent of the 90 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Edelweiss Air	1	194	plan this
Antalya AYT	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	1	3,593	plan this
Bilbao BIO	Spain	Vueling	1	1,376	plan this
Châlons/Vatry XCR	France	Ryanair	1	2,167	plan this
Deauville DOL	France	Transavia France	1	2,090	plan this
Glasgow GLA	the United Kingdom	Jet2	1	2,713	plan this
La Rochelle/Île de Ré LRH	France	Ryanair	1	1,723	plan this
Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian Airlines	1	4,712	plan this
Oslo OSL	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	3,477	plan this
Stuttgart STR	Germany	Eurowings	1	2,388	plan this

The ten destinations out of RAK where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 45 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from RAK

The desk holds the return direction for 62 of the 90 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into RAK runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Copenhagen (CPH) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Montreal (YUL) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Paris (ORY) files 6.7 a day back into RAK against 4.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at RAK

RAK keeps Africa/Casablanca time, three hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at RAK, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at RAK until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at RAK

12 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from RAK that lands inside it leaves around 19:47, on a modelled block of 3h 13m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from RAK that lands inside it leaves around 19:20, on a modelled block of 3h 10m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from RAK that lands inside it leaves around 20:06, on a modelled block of 3h 24m. Those three departure times out of RAK are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where RAK turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Morocco country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 9 airport pair pages that start or end at RAK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Marrakech to Casablanca (CMN), Marrakech to Paris (ORY) and Marrakech to Lyon (LYS).

One courier posting names RAK as the airport a courier here flies from: Marrakesh.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with RAK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 90 destinations above.