{"id":8603,"date":"2020-09-07T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:12:00","slug":"emirates-announces-repatriation-flights-to-casablanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Announces Repatriation Flights to Casablanca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To help stranded Moroccans around the globe get home, Emirates plans to operate two flights between Dubai and Casablanca on 8 and 9 September. Customers can also connect to these flights in Dubai from Emirates\u2019 current network of\u00a084 destinations\u00a0across the Middle East and GCC, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emirates flight EK9953 on 8 and 9 September will depart Dubai at 1000hrs, arriving in Casablanca at 1530hrs. The return flight, EK9954 will depart Casablanca at 1730hrs, arriving Dubai at 0350hrs the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flights can be booked on&nbsp;emirates.com, through travel agents, Emirates\u2019 sales offices and contact centre. Passengers must meet all the entry requirements to Morocco to be allowed to board the flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flights from Dubai to Casablanca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers who will be able to board must be Moroccan citizens, or foreign nationals holding Moroccan residency, or foreign nationals traveling to Morocco for business (holding a permit from the Moroccan Embassy in the UAE)&nbsp;in addition to&nbsp;diplomatic staff connecting from Dubai to Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emirates customers entering Morocco must complete a PCR test (within 48 hours of travel) and a Serology test for Covid-19, with printed results to present on request at check-in and to the local authorities on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers must also complete the passengers\u2019 health form before departure at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onda.ma\/en\/I-am-passenger\/Traveller-Guide\/Public-health-passenger-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.onda.ma\/en\/I-am-passenger\/Traveller-Guide\/Public-health-passenger-form<\/a>. The form must\u00a0be\u00a0printed and presented upon arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, foreigners who do not require a visa to Morocco can be accepted if they provide a confirmed hotel booking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flights from Casablanca to Dubai<\/strong>These flights will be available for passengers eligible to enter or transit through the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ensuring the safety of travellers, visitors, and the community, COVID-19 PCR tests are mandatory for all inbound and transit passengers arriving to Dubai (and the UAE), including UAE citizens, residents and tourists, irrespective of the country they are coming from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1920_emiratesboeing777-300er1-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1920_emiratesboeing777-300er1-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1920_emiratesboeing777-300er1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1920_emiratesboeing777-300er1-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1920_emiratesboeing777-300er1.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help stranded Moroccans around the globe get home, Emirates plans to operate two flights between Dubai and Casablanca on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,3965,89,5637,8222,10701,10700,5992,7929,2203,4957,5676,7067,10169,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[6923,420,118,4623,3790,2126,160,10300,6076,2135,2762,10180,3781,7501,10634,2284,600,3068,5930,445,12065,6107,1767,482,2389,5378,1170,3067,12401,4443,10614,1936,412,9753,5519,1016,3783,12200,10733,3657,12402,1249,12403,3908,1646,1691,1658,1916,3701,2862,7691],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-economic-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-luxury-news","category-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-agents","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-americas","tag-announces","tag-asia","tag-aviation","tag-booked","tag-casablanca","tag-center","tag-centre","tag-citizens","tag-community","tag-contact","tag-covid-19","tag-destinations","tag-dubai","tag-east","tag-embassy","tag-emirates","tag-emirates-com","tag-entry","tag-europe","tag-flights","tag-foreign","tag-globe","tag-home","tag-middle","tag-moroccans","tag-morocco","tag-nationals","tag-network","tag-news","tag-offices","tag-operate","tag-pacific","tag-passengers","tag-pcr","tag-repatriation","tag-requirements","tag-residency","tag-sales","tag-serology","tag-stranded","tag-test","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-travelers","tag-uae","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}