RAM and Air France agree heavy maintenance deal for Casablanca

The companies  signed the agreement at the Paris Air Show setting up a 50/50 joint venture which is due to be fully operational in about two years.

The business will take over some existing RAM facilities at Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport but will then build a new hangar with two bays.

In a briefing at Le bourget, AFI president Alain Bassil said the move was part of an existing strategy to focus interally on Air France and KLM’s own needs and to expand capacity at other locations, so no current jobs would be affected.

He says: “This venture is intended to bring new services and products to customers, and especially in the case of Morocco, to Mediterranean medium-haul markets.

“It will be focused on C-checks for A320s and and there will be a new, larger facility and in a couple of years it will be progressively upgraded to D-check capability.”