EL AL seeks Moroccan route

Israeli media is reporting that El Al Israeli Airlines is seeking to open a direct route to Morocco. According to the report, El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin visited the country in June for a tourism conference, and took the opportunity to discuss the idea with officials of Moroccos’s national airline, Royal Air Moroccos. Reports in Moroccan media said that direct flights between the two countries were set to begin next May. The first route to be flown would be one between Casablanca and Tel Aviv, the reports said. The reports have not been confirmed by either airline.