Royal Air Maroc Business Class to Casablanca from $1,638
My mission to find reasonable business class cash fares (and award space) for summer travel continues. While I recently sent some award space on Royal Air Maroc from a few airports, I wanted to flag a good cash deal as well.
While this deal is only from Montreal, it could still work well if you can book a separate positioning flight. Heck, you could even visit Morocco then book a short flight to any of several European cities.
Now, let's get into it!
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Image courtesy of Royal Air Maroc
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Straight To The Points
Routes: YUL-CMN
Operating airline: Royal Air Maroc
Class of service: Business class
Dates: June 2022 - March 2023
Seats available: 2+
Aircraft: Boeing 787-9, Boeing 787-8
Cabin layout: 1-2-1
Book with (per person, round-trip):
- Amex Business Platinum (35% rebate): From 106,144 points
- Amex Business Gold (25% rebate): From 122,474 points
- Chase Sapphire Reserve: From 108,866 points
- Chase Sapphire/Ink Preferred: From 130,639 points
- Royal Air Maroc: From $1,640
- Amex Travel/Chase Travel Portal: From $1,633
Don't forget to let me know if you book and how you did it!
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DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that the COVID-19 situation and the resulting travel restrictions could prevent you from traveling. Additionally, please make sure you understand the cancellation and change fees before booking.
Travel Restrictions and Requirements
With travel restrictions changing by the day, please take a look at the US embassy site for your destination. Here's a link to Morocco to get you started.
Flight Experience
Royal Air Maroc operates a Boeing 787-9 and 787-8 on this route.
The newer business class cabin is found on the 787-9. It's a simple 1-2-1 reverse herringbone layout so each seat will be lie-flat, have direct aisle access, and plenty of privacy.
Flights on the 787-8 will have the older 2-2-2 business class cabin. The seats are still lie-flat but only the middle seats are guaranteed aisle access with no one needing to step over you.
Regardless of which aircraft type, Royal Air Maroc has gotten solid marks for its inflight food and beverage options as well as friendly crew members.
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Best Ways To Book
With points, you'll use the fewest points via the Amex Business Platinum's 35% rebate at 106,144 points. However, you do need 163,299 points upfront. Alternatively, if you have the Sapphire Reserve, you'll get a similar rate at 108,866 points but it's a bit easier since it's not a rebate.
For a cash ticket, both Amex Travel and the Chase travel portal seem to have a slightly cheaper rate than booking direct.
I will note some online travel agents (OTAs) had an even cheaper rate. I'll let you decide how you feel about those options. Specifically, I saw it as low as $1,556 via Bravofly. I have no experience with this OTA.
Google Flights Link
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Where To Credit The Flights
Where To Credit hasn't been updated to show all of the possible oneworld programs to which you could credit these flights. Below, I've included the percentage of the flight distance that's used to calculate how many redeemable miles you can earn with this booking.
If you have elite status with a particular program, that could also factor into which program to which you credit these flights.
Use GCMap to check the flight distance and calculate redeemable miles.
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Bottom Line
With airfare on the rise, this is a solid option if you're looking for a business class ticket to Casablanca. Don't forget, it's only a short flight to places such as Spain and Portugal - you could visit Morocco then fly to Europe for a few days.
Happy booking!
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