New cheap flights to Morocco.

For those in Europe, the opportunities for cheap flights to Morocco, has just taken a boost with two airlines offering discount flights to Fez and Marrakech.



UK based Thomsonfly has announced new flights to Marrakech and have launched a sale on their Winter 2006/07 routes, with one-way tickets starting from £19.99. Marrakech is sure to be popular with holidaymakers this winter with its bustling bazaars, bargain-filled souks and stunning palaces.


At the same time Ryanair have announced nine new routes from its Frankfurt Hahn base.

The new flights will go to Granada and Murcia in Spain, Trieste and Verona in Italy, Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland, Kaunus in Lithuania and Fez and Marrakech in Morocco.

They will operate at least three times weekly from October 25, 2006 and bring the total number of destinations served by Ryanair from Frankfurt Hahn to 36.

European praise for Morocco.

The European Commission's vice-president, Jacques Barrot, speaking in Paris, has hailed Morocco as the first Mediterranean partner committed to a comprehensive air agreement with the European Union.

Speaking at an international colloquium, Barrot, also EU transport Commissioner, said "the Moroccan example proves that we can go further in our cooperation and practically have a united Euro-Mediterranean sky."

The EU open sky experience has been "extremely beneficial" for the air companies, he said, noting that a common Euro-Mediterranean airspace is "our objective."

"We are already very committed in this regulatory and technical cooperation in the fields of safety and security and the management of air traffic," said Barrot.

Evoking the North-South networks interconnection, he added that "we are examining the fixed link over the Gibraltar Straits, which could, in the long run, connect Europe to the Maghreb and offer a new outlet to traffic flows in the Mediterranean."

Initiated within the framework of the French Economic and Social Council auditorium (CES), this colloquium brought together several political and economic personalities inncluding King Mohammed VI's advisor, André Azoulay, Moroccan ambassador-at-large, Hassan Abouyoub, Algerian Foreign minister, Mohamed Bedjaoui, former French minister and CES dean, Philippe Dechartre, former Tunisian Minister of State, Mohamed Sayah and European Investment Bank vice-president, Philippe de Fontaine Sharp.

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