The OnBoard Courier for Morocco

After it come Marrakech (RAK) with 90 destinations and about 89.9 departures a day, Agadir (AGA) with 52 destinations and about 35.6 departures a day, Tangier (TNG) with 43 destinations and about 34.6 departures a day, Rabat (RBA) with 43 destinations and about 28 departures a day and Fes (FEZ) with 31 destinations and about 20.1 departures a day. Those are the alternates. When the primary gateway is shut by weather, a strike or a curfew, they are what a courier is rebooked through. Between them the 6 airports in Morocco that publish departures schedule about 338.4 movements a day and reach 363 separate destinations, counting each city once per airport.

Reach matters more than frequency for a hand carry, because a courier flies whatever is leaving. From CMN alone, 1,364 airports are reachable with exactly one change, on top of the 104 served nonstop. A gateway that multiplies its own reach that far with one change is a hub in the useful sense: almost anywhere is two boarding passes away. It is computed from the scheduled network rather than from a booking engine.

11 per cent of everything scheduled to leave the country stays inside it, across 16 domestic destinations. That matters on a hand carry because it decides whether the last leg can be flown or has to be driven. A consignee outside the gateway city is then a connecting flight, not a four hour drive.

Outside its own borders the country is tied most closely to France, about 90.7 flights a day, Spain, about 46.7 flights a day, the United Kingdom, about 26 flights a day, Italy, about 24.2 flights a day and Belgium, about 15 flights a day. Those are the markets a courier can reach from Morocco without a long connection, and they are also where a third country leg most often starts: an item that has to go from Morocco to somewhere with no direct service usually travels through one of them.

50 airlines fly out of Morocco in this data. Counted by how many of the country's routes each one appears on, the widest networks belong to Ryanair on 129 routes, Royal Air Maroc on 111 routes, Air Arabia Maroc on 47 routes, easyJet on 40 routes and Transavia France on 23 routes. The carrier matters to a hand carry more than it does to freight, because cabin baggage rules, what counts as an acceptable carry on item and whether an extra seat can be bought are set by the airline and not by the airport.

The longest single sector out of CMN in this data runs to Beijing, China (PKX), 10,074 km by great circle. Great circle is not a flown distance and will read short against a real routing, but it is the honest way to state a reach: it says what one aircraft does without stopping, which is exactly the question a courier desk is asking.

Counting what is already published, this site holds 2 city pages, 2 standalone city pages, 6 Atlas entries, 1 airport page and 4 lane pages for Morocco, and every one of them is linked from this page. That is the point of a country index: the material exists, it was written one page at a time, and until now there was no single place that connected it.

Alongside the reference material there is the country desk page, the travel and connections page and the courier recruitment page for people who already fly this market. The coverage here is thin, and saying so is more useful than padding it. What exists is accurate; what is missing is missing because nothing on this desk has been written about it yet.