Royal Air Maroc - AT to join oneworld mid-2022
Dec 6, 2018, 9:26 pm
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Royal Air Maroc - AT to join oneworld mid-2022
RAM will be the first African airline to fully join oneworld alliance, and the first new airline to fully join in four years. This will expand oneworld’s reach into north and west Africa particularly, and offer benefits to those also flying AA, AY, BA, IB, QR, S7, etc. and add some good award and earning routes for Safar Flyer members.
See this post in the oneworld forum, and here for the RAM route network map.
See this post in the oneworld forum, and here for the RAM route network map.
Dec 9, 2018, 12:53 pm
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what a joke this is
of all the candidates mentioned to join OW, Air Maroc is the most useless IMO
all this talk of Qatar quitting oneworld and now this less than illustrious carrier being added
of all the candidates mentioned to join OW, Air Maroc is the most useless IMO
all this talk of Qatar quitting oneworld and now this less than illustrious carrier being added
Dec 20, 2018, 4:45 pm
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I find this a very welcome addition. Perhaps AA would allow CMN connections on NA-EU awards. North Africa itself is a worthy destination as well.
The only disappointment in this announcement is having to wait 2 yrs for the integration to be fully implemented.
(the thread title should have the target date corrected to mid-2020)
The only disappointment in this announcement is having to wait 2 yrs for the integration to be fully implemented.
(the thread title should have the target date corrected to mid-2020)
Last edited by MaxVO; Dec 20, 2018 at 4:52 pm
Dec 21, 2018, 10:21 pm
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I don't know about that. Morocco has been a booming tourist destination for the last few years, and they've been expanding their North American routes (and buying some spiffy new planes in the process). Personally I'm a DL/B6 guy, so OW doesn't mean much to me, but I would have loved to have RAM join SkyTeam.
Dec 22, 2018, 9:03 am
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I've flown AT quite a lot between Europe and CMN. Almost always in business class and they were far and away better than AF, BA, KL, LH, LX, IB and all the rest. I've not flown them further south into Africa, but I can't believe it would be significantly different. They have standards. Unless the complaints are about aircraft technical delays. That would be more likely in sub-saharan African than Europe.
May 7, 2019, 12:24 am
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I don't know about that. Morocco has been a booming tourist destination for the last few years, and they've been expanding their North American routes (and buying some spiffy new planes in the process). Personally I'm a DL/B6 guy, so OW doesn't mean much to me, but I would have loved to have RAM join SkyTeam.
Dec 22, 2019, 8:00 am
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Hi FTers,
thought I would ask this here, we are doing a paid J flight in Royal Air Maroc in a few days. What is the best place to credit these flights? I'm OW Emerald given my EXP status, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't make any difference at this point.
should we create a Royal Air Maroc account and credit there?
should we credit to Etihad or Iberia?
or something else entirely that I might not have thought of?
thanks in advance for any guidance!
thought I would ask this here, we are doing a paid J flight in Royal Air Maroc in a few days. What is the best place to credit these flights? I'm OW Emerald given my EXP status, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't make any difference at this point.
should we create a Royal Air Maroc account and credit there?
should we credit to Etihad or Iberia?
or something else entirely that I might not have thought of?
thanks in advance for any guidance!
Dec 22, 2019, 3:33 pm
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Check Etihad redemption partners to decide if you could use any in the future -->
https://www.etihadguest.com/en/spend...rline_partners
IB/BA also have a few sweet spots for redemption.
Both options can be combined with transfers from CC points, which can make them useful without waiting for additional flight credits.
https://www.etihadguest.com/en/spend...rline_partners
IB/BA also have a few sweet spots for redemption.
Both options can be combined with transfers from CC points, which can make them useful without waiting for additional flight credits.
Dec 22, 2019, 4:26 pm
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I have an AT account and I bought at least one ticket with miles. Maybe someday you will be able to buy a ticket on another OW carrier with those miles.
Jan 1, 2020, 8:44 am
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It’s becoming a full-fledged Oneworld airline at some point in March of this year.
The airline’s frequent flyer program Safar allows up to twelve family members to pool their miles together. That should make “saffarring” on miles a lot easier for families who fly Oneworld carriers a lot. I’m looking forward to another such option beside the BA household account approach.
The airline’s frequent flyer program Safar allows up to twelve family members to pool their miles together. That should make “saffarring” on miles a lot easier for families who fly Oneworld carriers a lot. I’m looking forward to another such option beside the BA household account approach.
Jan 2, 2020, 1:25 am
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AT currently has 40% off on award bookings, through January 6th. I wonder if that sort of thing could continue under OW?
Safar Flyer vous souhaite une année 2020 pleine de voyages et de découvertes !
Programmez dès maintenant votre prochaine escapade :
40% de réduction sur votre prochain billet prime* acheté en ligne
du 25 décembre au 06 janvier 2020 inclus
pour tout voyage du 15 janvier au 15 mars 2020 inclus!
*en classe économique
Safar Flyer vous souhaite une année 2020 pleine de voyages et de découvertes !
Programmez dès maintenant votre prochaine escapade :
40% de réduction sur votre prochain billet prime* acheté en ligne
du 25 décembre au 06 janvier 2020 inclus
pour tout voyage du 15 janvier au 15 mars 2020 inclus!
*en classe économique