Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has announced plans to launch the Casablanca-Kinshasa route, the first between North Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 29 March 2008. A statement from the Moroccan national carrier on Sunday in Rabat said the first of its two weekly flights from Casablanca (the kingdom’s economic capital) to Kinshasa will start on that date, after which the route will be operated every Thursday and Saturday. The direct route is RAM’s 17th between Morocco and the rest of Africa. “The Kinshasa link will help increase exchanges between the two countries,” the statement said, noting that its service was part of the development of the RAM network in Africa. RAM’s current routes link Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Gabon, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Niger, among other countries. Panapress.
