Dubai: Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc is weighing up a decision to join an airline alliance in a bid to improve its corporate offering and access to Asia, an airline executive said on Tuesday.
The carrier, more commonly known as RAM, is evaluating its options and will decide early next year if it is to join an alliance after it finalises its study, Saida Najioullah, Royal Air Maroc’s vice president, marketing, told reporters in Dubai.
Najioullah said the airline was yet to decide which alliance it could join and also that it was not just considering signing up to one of the big three major alliances. The major alliances are SkyTeam, Star and oneworld.
Royal Air Maroc has bounced back to turn a profit in the last two years after a government-led capital injection of $186 million in 2011 and 2012.
Najioullah, speaking on the sidelines of the Aviation Festival, said the airline wants to grow in East Africa with the majority of its 32 African destinations in the continents west.
Najioullah also said the airline is committed to West Africa, which has been hit up the Ebola virus.
“We are African ... we cannot afford to be there when there is no problem and [when] there is a problem we quit,” she said.
