Morocco is a strategic market for the airline company Ryanair, said the Sales and Marketing Director of the Company for Southern Europe, Bridget Dowling.
In an interview published Tuesday by the Moroccan daily Aujourd'hui Le Maroc, Dowling stressed that the new Ryanair lines between Morocco and Europe will be operational by late October, adding that seven connections will be launched from Oujda to Marseille against three from Fez.
"The integration of Morocco, with Croatia and Serbia, in the common zone of European aviation is also an encouraging factor," she said, stressing that the plan of the Moroccan National Office of Airports (ONDA) aiming at encouraging the use of secondary airports corresponds to the company's policy, which has always made regional platforms its credo.
Asked about a possible extension of Ryanair activities to other African and Maghreban countries, Dowling indicated that for the moment the company focuses more on Europe and the countries which, like Morocco, form part of the common zone of European aviation.
However, she emphasised that in the future "nothing is excluded, provided that conditions allow it".
© Morocco Times 2006
