The sector is held by Air Arabia Maroc and Royal Air Maroc.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to CMN Casablanca
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Mohammed V International, Morocco. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,748 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 44m
- Door to door
- 9h 29m
What LYS to CMN looks like
The LYS to CMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Casablanca CMN is a medium haul sector of 1,748 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,748 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 44m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Casablanca CMN has 104 destinations and 130.1 departures a day.
Casablanca runs one hour behind of Lyon in January and 2 hours 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 LYS to CMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to CMN | 3 | 21 | Air Arabia Maroc, Royal Air Maroc |
| CMN to LYS | 2.29 | 16 | Air Arabia Maroc, Royal Air Maroc |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Arabia Maroc and Royal Air Maroc, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 37 departures a week on LYS 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 2h 44m block time on LYS 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 LYS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LYS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LYS to CMN in the air, estimated | 164 min | 7h 14m |
| Formalities at CMN | 90 min | 8h 44m |
| Delivery run in Casablanca | 45 min | 9h 29m |
| Door to door | 569 min | 9h 29m |
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 LYS to CMN is 9h 29m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Casablanca at about 10:44 local and at the door by 12:59 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Casablanca, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:01 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. 45 of them join LYS to CMN.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangier TNG | 1.14 | 0.57 | 1,749 | 4h 18m |
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 1.29 | 1,756 | 4h 19m |
| Fez FEZ | 0.86 | 0.71 | 1,816 | 4h 22m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 5.29 | 1.43 | 1,869 | 4h 29m |
| Alicante ALC | 0.57 | 0.57 | 1,787 | 4h 32m |
| Malaga AGP | 1.14 | 3.29 | 1,748 | 4h 34m |
With 3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
45 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 1,749 km against the 1,748 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 18m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 4h 19m and Fez FEZ at 4h 22m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LYS or CMN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan Lyon 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 LYS 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 LYS airport entry
- The CMN airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- 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 LYS 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.