Review: Royal Air Maroc Business Class 787 Doha To Casablanca

Have flown them a few times in West Africa. Had IRROPS in Liberia and they were pretty good taking care of us.

Very strange seat! If I in the top bed, you may accidentally drop your legs over the side and nudge the guy on the bottom bunk! It's a shame because for me, the seat is the most important thing when buying a business class ticket - Service and quality of food and drink come second and third. But like you said judging by the carriers who have bought it, it was probably a very good deal.

I flew with them once from CMN to AMS and on boarding received an upgrade to Business class. It was a delightful flight - excellent service and surprisingly good food for the 4 hour flight to Amsterdam. I was thoroughly satisfied with my experience on them.

nice. when we can expect more european routes and airlines, everybody I know that follows you including myself fly 95% within Europe and occasionally to the US, Moscow or UAE. don't get me wrong, it's wonderful to read your blog but there's only a fraction of what you wrote that's useful and practical, and I think it shouldn't be that way since you are half european 🙂

Lucky: Other than the seats I was really impressed with the airline. So, back to the seats, I would imagine airlines have choices when they order their planes like we do when we order our cars. Thus, Air Marroc may have made a bad choice when choosing the seats but wouldn't be Boeing the one to blame here for offering such bad seats? I know this may be a budget choice by Air Maroc but just wondering if you have insights on how these options are chosen and in this specific case if Air Maroc got bad seats on purpose just to save money or if Boeing had a bad selection to offer them? You mentioned how bad the configuration was but also the poor padding. You also said these seats are only available at Royal Air Maroc, Philippine Airlines, and Air Europa which I don't consider premium airlines. Are these the cheapest seats available when you order at 787?

@Santastico: Boeing does not actually recommend or supply the seats - they ensure that the products provided by the multiple seat manufacturers can be integrated into the airline with some limiting specifications. The airline can pick and choose from the available selections. Ultimately, the seat and other custom product manufacturers send them to Boeing for assembly in Everett or in North Carolina. This one seems like a customized Cirrus offering.

JAL's new B777-200 has similar type in the middle 2 seats of 1-2-1 configuration. It'll be interesting to compare the difference. Thanks for sharing the experience; there are few reports on Royal Air Maroc's new B787 and it's always fun to read reviews of an unexplored airline, which makes this blog very unique.

For someone who always uses fancy words I'm surprise you are calling pain au chocolate, a "chocolate pastry" lol

Lucky - just curious what don't you like about Doha. I couldn't decide how I felt about when I had an overnight layover last year. I think I liked it overall.

Oh man, those "bunk beds". How strange to be in the window seat with a stranger in the aisle. Hop!

That aside, the dinner meal looks pretty tasty!

Woah. I wish all airline salads looked that good. I would have just combined both salads into one both. Actually, I probably would have asked the flight attendant for a couple additional salads. I can't believe they serve that kind of food on a red-eye. It sure puts the U.S. airlines to shame for the crap they serve on an overnight flight to Europe, a red-eye from SFO to JFK, and a red-eye from HNL to SFO. And look at all that cheese. Can we say #cheeseplateporn? I suspect you couldn't sleep because you ate all that food. You probably consumed an unneeded 1,500 calories, given you would have normally been sleeping during this period.

I enjoy your reviews, have only experienced business class on Air Canada flights to UK , Barbados , New York and Domestic. The Boeing 767 were 1 -2-1 , Airbus 319 , 320 were 2 -2 and AC Rouge was AB 319 3 - 3 with middle blocked off. , that was strange.
All that food amazed me,, will have to not eat the day prior so I can enjoy it all,,, Lovely
What I can not work out on this configuration of 2 - 2 - 2is if you are on the windows section then so you leap over the person sleeping to venture to the washroom or walk. I could see where one would select the middle rows for access

Lol usually you complain when food is delivered on one tray and act like it's a mark of bad service, but here you say, "all of breakfast was served on one tray, fortunately." Makes a ton of sense!

@Lucky :
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I'm quite sure another airline also has seats with an up-down configuration (as in the seat near the window is slightly higher up than the seat near the aisle when in full flat position) - as I distinctly remember finding it strange when I first experienced it, but then finding it quite useful as a means of 'hopping' over that person seated (lying) in the aisle seat. Not sure, but think it's the Qatar refurbished A320s, although the seats were pointing in the same direction, i.e. parallel rather than converging at the legs...

I plan on booking CMN-JFK route using my miles, I'd like to take advantage of the free stopover...is Europe my only option?

While I hear you on the blanket, can you tell me more about the pillow? I realize this was over a year ago, but im interested to know about the pillow. Was it a feather pillow? Poly fill? Do you know about what size it was similar to?