TAP’s inaugural flight to Morocco left Lisbon early this afternoon filled to capacity. The capacity booking on this first flight confirms the Company’s investment in flights to this new destination as one of the most important cities in the north of Africa. According to Fernando Pinto, CEO, “this is another important step in TAP development in Africa, one of its strategic markets”.
Flights between Lisbon and Casablanca will run daily except on Sundays and total six flights a week. Flights on this new route leave Lisbon at 2:05pm and arrive in Casablanca at 3:35pm. On the return leg they depart Casablanca at 4:15pm and land in the Portuguese capital at 5:45pm.
On the return leg of this inaugural flight a group of journalists from leading Moroccan media companies flew to visit Lisbon in order to promote this destination in their home country.
Casablanca airport – Mohamed V – is today one of the main air traffic distribution hubs to a number of countries in West Africa and also enables passengers to make connections to other Moroccan cities such as Agadir, Marrakech and Fez.
TAP is therefore restarting its historical leg to Casablanca, one of its first integrated stopovers in 1946 on the then so-called “imperial line” to Africa.
With this new destination the Company is further diversifying its flights to Africa and now operates to nine destinations. In addition to Casablanca, TAP also serves cities such as Bissau, Dakar, Luanda, Maputo, Johannesburg, Sal, Praia and São Tomé, in a total of 41 flights a week.
