Oujda L. Angades Airport

The route is one of four launched by TAP Air Portugal to destinations in North Africa.

The network expansion is concentrated on cities with large Moroccan diaspora communities.

Portugal’s flag-carrier hopes to be operating 100 routes in August.

Volotea plans to add competition to a market that has been left with only one operator following the bankruptcy of Aigle Azur.

The weekly flight from Toulouse to Oujda will operate every Monday for a three month period from late June until late September and will be scheduled around the daytime period an aircraft would otherwise be sat idle at the southern French airfield after fulfilling its morning Airbus staff shuttle commitment.