{"id":197626,"date":"2018-07-17T18:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=197626"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:41:18","slug":"passenger-traffic-moroccos-airports-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/passenger-traffic-moroccos-airports-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger traffic in Morocco\u2019s airports up 13%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casablanca \u2013 Airports in Morocco handled nearly 10.5 million users in the year\u2019s first six months, an increase of 13% over the same period of last year, according to data released this Tuesday (17) by the Moroccan Airports Authority (ONDA, in the French acronym). The information was published by news outlet <em>Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Moroccan airports received 1.65 million passengers, a surge of 25.7% in comparison to the same month of 2017.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197611\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/souqmarrakech.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197611\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/souqmarrakech.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souq in Marrakech, Morocco: tourist destination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Mohammed V Airport, in Casablanca, represented 43% of the country\u2019s total passenger traffic. In the first six months, the airport\u2019s passenger numbers increased 5.7% against the same period of last year, and in June it climbed 20.3% over the same month of 2017. In the picture above, the airport in Fez.<\/p>\n<p>June saw a sharp increase in number of passengers in most of the country\u2019s\u00a0airports, with growth rates ranging from 15.2% to 231.7% over the same month of 2017, according to <em>MAP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Local traffic surpassed 1.1 million passengers in the first six months, up 15.4% over last year\u2019s first six months. In June, the growth seen over the same month of 2017 was of 28%.<\/p>\n<p>International passenger traffic reached 9.32 million from January to June, a surge of 12.7% in comparison to 2017\u2019s first six months. In June, the country\u2019s airports received nearly 1.5 million international passengers, up 25.4% in comparison to June of last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>MAP<\/em>, the numbers reflect the good performance of the European market, which represents over three quarters of international air traffic in Morocco. The number of passengers coming from Europe rose nearly 15% in the first six months. Also stood up the increase in the number of passengers from the Middle East (up 6.2%), North America (up 20.2%) and South America (up 31.3%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-197614\">Artur Widak\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-197611\">Frank Fell \/ Robert Harding Premium<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reached 10.5 million in the year\u2019s first six months. Number of people coming from South America surged 31%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":197614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[37005,2857,2858,382,3848,416,433,2247],"class_list":{"0":"post-197626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-aeroportos-en","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-casablanca","12":"tag-fez","13":"tag-morocco","14":"tag-tourism","15":"tag-tourists"},"wps_subtitle":"It reached 10.5 million in the year\u2019s first six months. 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