Loading ...Royal Air Maroc and Moroccan Americans
The abusive and corrupt services from a Moroccan-taxpayers -financed company, Royal Air Maroc, is typical of the wide chasm between the government rhetoric about RME (moroccan emigres) and the bitter reality on the ground.
Recently i have heard that a delegation of CCME ( Council of the Moroccan Community living abroad) was coming to the states ” to meet community members” that prompted me to think what is the point of having anyone affiliated with Moroccan government coming here if they can not solve one the most basic needs which is to facilitate ways to visit the old country.
The Moroccan American community is not looking for the Moroccan government to subsidize airline flights, or specifically make the rates lower .
What we expects is that this taxpayer funded airline, that has been flying for close to 40 years to NY should al least expand its network to other cities, that the airline work in a semi professional manner with employees expected to fulfill their duty, a marketing team that knows how to expand the business beyond the Moroccan expatriates. When the airline works like a business it can be expected to have rates that are competitive and compete against other companies. None of this is happening now.
Another argument we hear is that American companies are not interested in flying to Morocco. Why is that? American companies already fly to several African cities in Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria, south Africa…etc
American companies will fly anywhere where there is opportunity. Morocco as a travel market surely presents a more promising opportunity than many other countries with multiple flights to the US.
Royal air Morocco and the government airport bureau (ONDA) have been conspiring for years to mire any new company interested in establishing new flights to Casablanca in red tape so that they are disgusted with the process and drop morocco from their radar. This has been a deliberate policy and my own personal conversations with an ex-executive from delta Airline confirmed it.
Countries world wide are active in soliciting airlines to serve their cities. there are a whole host of tools that are used for this purpose. The more connections the better for economic development.
These people, … that is the powers to be in Morocco, are only interested in Moroccans Americans when they need help with the Sahara issue or when they are busy collecting the hard-earned currency sent by the Moroccan Americans back home. Anything else is just pure propaganda.
Next time you meet an official from Morocco, please tell them not to bother coming here anymore…
Source: www.moroccoboard.com