The sector is held by Air Canada and Royal Air Maroc.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
YUL Montreal to CMN Casablanca
Montreal Trudeau, Canada, to Mohammed V International, Morocco. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 5,674 km
- Block, estimated
- 7h 20m
- Door to door
- 14h 05m
What YUL to CMN looks like
The YUL to CMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Montreal YUL to Casablanca CMN is a long haul sector of 5,674 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 5,674 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 7h 20m.
Montreal YUL is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 317.8 departures a day. Casablanca CMN has 104 destinations and 130.1 departures a day.
Casablanca runs 5 hours ahead of Montreal in January and 4 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 2 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on YUL to CMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| YUL to CMN | 3.43 | 24 | Air Canada, Royal Air Maroc |
| CMN to YUL | 3 | 21 | Air Canada, Royal Air Maroc |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Canada and Royal Air Maroc, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.4 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 45 departures a week on YUL 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 7h 20m block time on YUL 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 YUL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At YUL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| YUL to CMN in the air, estimated | 440 min | 11h 50m |
| Formalities at CMN | 90 min | 13h 20m |
| Delivery run in Casablanca | 45 min | 14h 05m |
| Door to door | 845 min | 14h 05m |
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 YUL to CMN is 14h 05m.
A courier who leaves Montreal at 09:00 local is on the ground in Casablanca at about 21:20 local and at the door by 23:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Casablanca, nothing leaving Montreal inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 14h 05m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 41 of them join YUL to CMN.
| Connecting at | YUL to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon LIS | 2.86 | 3.14 | 5,853 | 9h 28m |
| Porto OPO | 1.14 | 0.71 | 6,017 | 9h 34m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.71 | 5.14 | 6,420 | 10h 18m |
| Toronto YYZ | 30.86 | 0.57 | 6,681 | 10h 26m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 1 | 1.43 | 6,922 | 10h 27m |
| Nantes NTE | 1.43 | 1.43 | 6,951 | 10h 30m |
With 3.4 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.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lisbon LIS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through LIS the routing covers 5,853 km against the 5,674 km nonstop track and takes about 9h 28m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 08m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Porto OPO at 9h 34m and Madrid MAD at 10h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Montreal, Ottawa YOW is 151 km away by great circle and carries 45 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.
Plan Montreal 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 YUL 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 YUL airport entry
- The CMN airport entry
- Hand carry into Canada
- Hand carry into Morocco
- The written lane, Dubai to Montreal
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Casablanca
- The written lane, Casablanca to Toulouse
- The route calculator
More pairs through YUL 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.