Essaouira-Mogador Airport ( ar, مطار الصويرة موكادور) is an

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serving

Essaouira Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ha ...

(formerly known as Mogador), a city in the

Marrakesh-Safi Marrakesh-Safi or Marrakech-Asfi ( ar, مراكش آسفي, murrākuš āsafi; ( ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ ⴰⵙⴼⵉ, mṙṙakš asfi) is one of the ten Regions of Morocco.

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Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

Facilities

The airport resides at an

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of above

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. It has one

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designated 16/34 with an

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surface measuring .

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Essaouira Airport:

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External links

* Airports in Morocco Buildings and structures in Marrakesh-Safi {{Morocco-airport-stub