Royal Air Maroc is Morocco's flag carrier and a oneworld member, and its geography is the point: Casablanca sits where Europe, the Americas and Africa can be joined in one connection, so the network banks European and transatlantic arrivals onto services down the continent's west side. Domestic and thin regional routes run on turboprops and E-Jets under the same code.

For seat pickers the headline is that the airline mostly means it. Business class on the 737s and the E190 is real hardware, wide recliners in their own rows, and the 787s carry flat beds, one of them with a four-seat first class row that is closer to a private alcove than a cabin. The single exception is the ATR turboprop, where the front rows sold as business are the same seat with a curtain and a little more pitch.

Fleet & aircraft

The narrowbody fleet is the 737-800 and the 737 MAX 8, the latter in three fits: a standard two-class, a version with a shorter front cabin, and one flying with no business at all. The -800's front cabin has the most generous stretch of any of the airline's single-aisles, and every 737 layout skips row 13 (superstition is handled at the factory, so it costs you nothing but a number).

The widebodies are 787-8s and 787-9s in two fits each. The canonical 787-9 carries the strongest seat in the fleet, a one-two-one business cabin where every passenger has their own path to the aisle; its sibling trims business to add a true premium economy. One 787-8 carries the four-seat first row. The E190 has a distinctive one-two business cabin whose single seats come with nobody beside them, and the ATR 72-600 covers the domestic hops.

Cabin experience

Narrowbody business is a different chair, not a rebadged economy row: broad recliners in pairs, a small cabin that stays calm, catering to match the sector length. The E190 refines it further, since its solo seats give a solo traveller both the window and the aisle at once. Economy across the single-aisles is the standard tight three-by-three on the Boeings and a middle-free two-by-two on the E190 and the ATR.

The 787s carry the long-haul product. Business converts to a flat bed on all of them, with the one-two-one cabins giving direct aisle access throughout, and the first row on the odd 787-8 adds width and isolation beyond that. Premium economy, where fitted, is a proper intermediate recliner. Dreamliner economy is nine abreast, softened by the airframe's quieter cabin and better air on the overnight runs to and from Casablanca.

Seat selection tips

Establish the fit before the seat. The MAX alone flies three ways, and a booking that shows no business cabin is not an error but the single-class version, where the marked legroom moves to a front block and the mid-cabin exits. On the two-class 737s, treat the economy bulkhead with suspicion: it carries the bassinet positions and on the -800 the wall sits closer than bulkheads usually do, so the row behind it can be the smarter buy.

On the canonical 787-9 every business seat reaches the aisle, so pick on position, windows for privacy and the centre pair for couples. On the E190 the solo business seats go first for good reason, and further back several rows over the wing carry no glass at all, each with its own note. The ATR rewards sitting aft of the wing, away from the propeller line, and its last row keeps the lavatory close company.