For the summer 2026 season, an Irish airline has scheduled 26.7 percent of the seats departing from Morocco, compared to 31.1 percent for Royal Air Maroc (RAM). On international routes alone, the Irish carrier surpasses RAM, which nonetheless maintains a significant lead on the domestic network and relies on its hub in Casablanca. For this season, which runs from the end of March to the end of October in the aviation calendar, Ryanair and its subsidiary Ryanair UK have scheduled approximately 3.8 million seats departing from Morocco, 10.7 percent more than a year earlier. According to flight schedules compiled by OAG and analyzed in August by Aviation Week, their share of total capacity has increased from 26.2 percent to 26.7 percent, on a market of 14.3 million seats departing (+8.6 percent). RAM remains the leading operator in the country, with 31.1 percent. On international routes, the order is reversed, and Ryanair concentrates 27.9 percent of the seats scheduled for departure from the Kingdom, RAM 26.2 percent. These data relate to the seats made available for the season, not the passengers actually transported. They nonetheless make the Irish low-cost carrier the leading international carrier in terms of capacity departing from Morocco, thanks to its routes to Europe, which are heavily used by tourists as well as Moroccans living abroad. Rabat, the fifth Ryanair base in Morocco, has been opened by Ryanair, where two Boeing 737-800s are stationed. At the beginning of August, it presented its winter 2026-2027 schedule, which starts at the end of October and constitutes the largest it has ever proposed in the country: 5.3 million seats, 580,000 more than the previous winter (+12 percent), on 156 routes, including 17 new ones. The company will serve 13 Moroccan airports, connected to 14 European countries. Of the 17 new routes, seven depart from Rabat, including to Stockholm and Cracow. The other ten are split equally between Marrakech, which will be connected to Wrocław among others, and Agadir, from which new flights will depart to Milan, Nuremberg, Bratislava, and Gdańsk. According to Aviation Week, most of these openings avoid direct competition, and seven of them create direct links that did not previously exist. Ryanair, however, is targeting three already contested markets: Agadir-Milan Malpensa and Marrakech-Sofia, where it will compete with Wizz Air, and Marrakech-Birmingham, operated by easyJet, which has been present in Morocco since 2006, and Jet2. RAM holds the domestic market and bets on Casablanca. The overall lead of RAM is based on its domestic network, where it holds 65.4 percent of the capacity. Ryanair, which has operated domestic flights in Morocco only since 2024, already represents 18.2 percent, ahead of Air Arabia Maroc (11.4 percent). The national carrier is also increasing its offerings. It had announced in July for the summer 2026 season, nearly 8.2 million seats (+23 percent) and 86 international destinations, including 44 in Europe and 29 in Africa. These figures, communicated by RAM, are not based on the same criteria as the OAG data and therefore cannot be directly compared to those of Ryanair. The program includes more than 890,000 seats on point-to-point routes, which connect Moroccan cities to abroad without passing through Casablanca (+37 percent), and nearly 1.2 million on the domestic network (+18 percent). RAM mainly relies on its hub in Casablanca, which ensures connections between Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Ryanair, whose model is based on direct flights, does not operate in this area, even though the two companies overlap on certain routes. On June 7, 2026, RAM inaugurated a direct flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles, the first between Africa and the Pacific coast of the United States. Moroccan airports welcomed 36.3 million passengers in 2025, 11 percent more than in 2024, according to the National Office of Airports (ONDA). Casablanca-Mohammed V exceeded 11 million travelers and Marrakech-Ménara crossed the 10 million threshold for the first time. Rabat-Salé, where Ryanair has recently established itself, increased by 26 percent to exceed 2 million. Ryanair is capturing an increasing share of this demand: its capacity departing from Morocco is growing faster than the market (+10.7 percent versus +8.6 percent), and its winter program strengthens its presence in Fez, Tetouan, Essaouira, Ouarzazate, and Nador. Morocco, which co-organizes the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal, continues on its own part the "Airports 2030" plan to modernize its infrastructure.