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Marrakech-Menara Airport
Marrakech-Menara Airport; مطار مراكش المنارة
IATA: RAK – ICAO: GMMX
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	ONDA (Morocco)
Location	1,535
Hub for	Atlas Blue;
Elevation AMSL	468 ft / m
Coordinates	31°36′40″N 08°02′33″W / 31.61111°N 8.0425°W
Runways

Marrakech-Menara Airport (Arabic: مطار مراكش المنارة‎) (IATA: RAK, ICAO: GMMX) in Marrakech, Morocco, is an international facility that receives some European flights as well as flights from Casablanca and some of the Arab world nations.

The airport served over 3.1 million passengers in the year 2008^[1]

[edit] Runway

The paved runway is laid out in the direction 10/28 (almost East-West) is 3100 meters long and 45 meters wide, and can receive all modern jetliners up to the Boeing 747 in size.

[edit] Classification and navigation equipment

The airport is equipped with an ILS Cat II landing system and offers the following radio navigation aids: VOR – DME – NDB.

[edit] Other facilities

Aircraft parking space of 125.000 m² supporting up to fourteen Boeing 737s and four Boeing 747s. The cargo terminal is 340 m² of covered space.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Passengers leaving an Airbus A321 of Monarch Airlines on a charter flight from Manchester at Menara airport in 2000

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europa	Madrid
Air Méditerranée	Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Andalus Líneas Aéreas	Malaga, Seville
Atlas Blue	Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels, Geneva, Lille, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Orly, Toulouse
Binter Canarias	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
easyJet	London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
operated by easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air	Agadir, Zürich
Europe Airpost	Liege [begins 25 March], Tangier [begins 25 March]
Hamburg International	Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 4 December]
Iberia Airlines	Madrid
Jet4you	Paris-Orly
Jetairfly	Brussels
Luxair	Luxembourg [seasonal]
Regional Air Lines	Casablanca
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca, Paris-Orly
Ryanair	Alicante, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, East Midlands, Girona, Hahn, London-Luton, Marseille, Pisa, Reus, Seville, Weeze
Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium)	Amsterdam, Brussels, Liège, Lille
Thomson Airways	London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia.com	Amsterdam, Paris-Orly
Vueling Airlines	Barcelona

[edit] Traffic details

Item	2008^[2]	2007^[3]	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002
Aircraft movements^[4]	27.369	29.246	24.613	20.689	16.112	13.843	13.078
Passengers^[5]	3.100.495	3.050.916	2.648.742	2.195.899	1.667.267	1.368.281	1.349.363
Freight (tons)^[6]	1.425,47	1.555,07	1.307,99	2.000,40	2.286,86	2.092,99	2.197,70

[edit] World War II

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a stopover en-route to Casablanca Airfield or to Agadir Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. ^[7]

[edit] References

^ [1]
^ Source 2008 details: ONDA site
^ Source 2007 details: ONDA site
^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA, PDF document
^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA, PDF document
^ Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA, PDF document
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[edit] External links

Menara International Airport Homepage (French)
Airport information for GMMX at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

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[1] Source 2008 details: ONDA site

[2] Source 2007 details: ONDA site

[3] Details up to 2006 from: Overview movements aircraft MA, PDF document

[4] Details up to 2006 from: Overview passengers MA, PDF document

[5] Details up to 2006 from: Overview freight MA, PDF document

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