Mohammed V International Airport is an international airport serving Casablanca, Morocco. Located in Nouaceur Province, it is operated by ONDA (National Airports Office).
With just under 8 million passengers passing through the Casablanca airport in 2014, it was the busiest airport in Morocco and the fourth busiest in Africa. In August 2014, ONDA reported a year-on-year increase of 7.28% passenger traffic, to 918,238. The Casablanca Mohammed V international airport serves as a hub for Royal Air Maroc, Royal Air Maroc Express, and Air Arabia Maroc. Mohammed V international airport CMN is named after King Mohammed V of Morocco, who led the country’s successful push for independence from French and Spanish colonial rule.
Mohammed V Airport has three terminals:
Regarding transportation, Mohammed V international airport can be reached via the A7 Casa-Berchid motorway via Bouskoura. From Rabat use the A3 than the A5. The train station is situated at level -1 in the arrivals area of Terminal 1. Trains depart from the Casablanca airport to Casablanca every hour. Also, bus company CTM operates services to Casablanca Mohammed V airport from the city center. And the taxi rank is located at level 0 of the arrivals area.
The Casablanca Mohammed V Airport was originally built by the United States in early 1943 following Operation Torch in World War II. It was named Berrechid Airfield and it served as an auxiliary airfield for Casablanca’s Anfa Airport. The airfield handled diverse military traffic as a stopover en route to Port Lyautey Airfield, and to Marrakech Airport on the North African Cairo-Dakar route.
In addition, it was the terminus of Mid-Atlantic route transatlantic flights via the Azores to Nova Scotia and airfields on the East Coast of the United States. With the end of the war in 1945, the airfield was handed over to the civil government.
During the Cold War in the early and middle 1950s, the airfield was reopened as Nouasseur Air Base and was used as a United States Air Force Strategic Air Command staging area for B-47 Stratojet bombers pointed at the Soviet Union. These operations later moved to Ben Guerir Air Base.
With the destabilization of French government in Morocco, and Moroccan independence in 1956, the government of Mohammed V wanted the US Air Force to pull its bases out of Morocco, insisting on such action after American intervention in Lebanon in 1958.
The United States agreed to leave in December 1959, and was fully out of Morocco by 1963.
Elevation of CMN Airport : 200m
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The modern Hassan II Mosque is one of the city’s best places to visit, and a tour of the building is worth an overnight stay in town. Architecture fans will also want to spend some time in Casablanca’s downtown district, which is home to plenty of preserved Mauresque facades. Other tourist attraction you should consider visiting are Casablanca’s Cathedral du Sacre Coeur and El Jadida’s. Choose AeroJet Me for private flights to Mohammed V international airport CMN.
