The sector is held by Royal Air Maroc.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LGW London to CMN Casablanca
Gatwick Airport, the United Kingdom, to Mohammed V International, Morocco. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,066 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 08m
- Door to door
- 9h 53m
What LGW to CMN looks like
The LGW to CMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LGW to Casablanca CMN is a medium haul sector of 2,066 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,066 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 08m.
London LGW is a major hub in the network held here, 203 scheduled destinations and 510.1 departures a day. Casablanca CMN has 104 destinations and 130.1 departures a day.
London carries about 3.9 times the departures of Casablanca, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Casablanca runs no time shift at all of London in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on LGW to CMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGW to CMN | 1.14 | 8 | Royal Air Maroc |
| CMN to LGW | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Royal Air Maroc, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg CMN to LGW carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on LGW to CMN, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 08m block time on LGW to CMN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LGW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LGW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LGW to CMN in the air, estimated | 188 min | 7h 38m |
| Formalities at CMN | 90 min | 9h 08m |
| Delivery run in Casablanca | 45 min | 9h 53m |
| Door to door | 593 min | 9h 53m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for LGW to CMN is 9h 53m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Casablanca at about 12:08 local and at the door by 14:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Casablanca, the last useful departure from London is around 12:37 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 52 of them join LGW to CMN.
| Connecting at | LGW to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangier TNG | 0.71 | 0.57 | 2,079 | 4h 43m |
| Nantes NTE | 2 | 1.43 | 2,069 | 4h 44m |
| Seville SVQ | 4 | 0.71 | 2,068 | 4h 44m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 4.14 | 1.43 | 2,108 | 4h 50m |
| Toulouse TLS | 0.57 | 1.29 | 2,224 | 4h 51m |
| Porto OPO | 7.43 | 0.71 | 2,160 | 5h 01m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LGW in the afternoon actually flies on.
52 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tangier TNG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through TNG the routing covers 2,079 km against the 2,066 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 43m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Nantes NTE at 4h 44m and Seville SVQ at 4h 44m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London LHR is 41 km away by great circle and carries 212 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Casablanca, Rabat RBA is 109 km away by great circle and carries 43 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
London LGW is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, so a collection in London that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Casablanca.
London LGW, night restrictions: Night movements are capped between 23:30 and 06:00 local under a seasonal quota.
Plan London to Casablanca yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for LGW to CMN in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The LGW airport entry
- The CMN airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Morocco
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Casablanca
- The written lane, Casablanca to Toulouse
- The written lane, Dubai to Casablanca
- The route calculator
More pairs through LGW and CMN: Madrid to Casablanca, Brussels to Casablanca, Frankfurt to Casablanca, Milan to Casablanca, Jeddah to Casablanca, Casablanca to Doha, Paris to Casablanca, Manchester to Casablanca.