Time to go home! From Amanjena, we took an E-Class back to the airport. The new terminal is quite futuristic and difficult to capture in photos.

The Amanjena accompanied us to the counter and waited there with us dutifully. My objection that he could go ahead and we could do it on our own was rejected, they would accompany all guests as far as possible. Incidentally, it would have been possible to book a VIP service for a fee, but I couldn't quite see the point.
By the way, here's a picture for the junkies:

Unfortunately, this is when the problems began. I don't mean that the queue was quite long. You can cope with that. No, they were not able to check us in. The problem was that I had booked a free middle seat to make the next 3.5 hours or so in wooden class more or less bearable. But they couldn't cope with that. After I had tied up 2 counters and a supervisor, the result was that I had to pay €20 extra. Nonsense, of course, but as time was running out I didn't care, I'd just get it back later. After they had issued me with a slip of paper and I was waiting at the till, a lady from the counter finally came running up - they had done it! Then I quickly went through security. The Amanjena employee took us to the priority lane, which meant that we bypassed just 3 waiting passengers. It then took forever at the security checkpoint and again at passport control. After all, anyone leaving blessed Morocco has to be thoroughly checked. There is then a final check to make sure that you really have an exit stamp in your passport and then it's off to the terminal. Although the gate wasn't due to open for a few minutes, boarding had already begun. Well, the Duty Free only had euro prices anyway, so I bought some dirhams via......