Onda: new director at Dakhla airport
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat
The National Airport Office is continuing its managerial strengthening movement nationally with the appointment of a new director at the head of Dakhla airport. An appointment that is part of the
The “airports 2030” strategy aimed in particular to make airports in the country more smart, more fluid and more welcoming.
After Casablanca, Tétouan, Al Hoceima, Laayoune, Zagora, Nador, and Agadir It is Dakhla’s turn to benefit from local governance, up to the ambitions of the “Airports 2030” strategy. The National Airport Office has just appointed Badreddine Berrachid, new director of
Dakhla airport.
The ceremony took place today, Friday, April 25, 2025, in the presence of Adel El Fakir, Managing Director of Onda. This is the eighth change in governance nationwide in less than a year.
This appointment comes as Dakhla airport recorded in the 1st quarter of 2025 in the 1st quarter of 14 % of its traffic compared to the same period of 2024, totaling more than 70,000 passengers. International traffic, in particular, has a spectacular increase of 56 %, a sign of growing regional influence internationally.
Between major tourism projects, the boom in fishing, investments in renewable energies, the emergence of an Atlantic logistics zone and the growing connection with sub -Saharan Africa, the city is in great change.
This dynamic is reflected in air connectivity: Dakhla is connected to Casablanca by 2 daily frequencies provided by RAM, and to other Moroccan cities such as Agadir, Laâyoune and Rabat. In the International, Paris, Madrid, Lanzarote and Las Palmas are now accessible with up to 2 flights
weekly via RAM, Transavia, Ryanair and Binter. With regular traffic growth and development in development, Dakhla airport is led to adapt to new mobility challenges,
reception and operational efficiency implemented in the new strategy
“2030 airport”.
The objective displayed by ONDA is to strengthen the capacity of the airport, improve the passenger experience and support the rise in progressive load linked to tourism activity, but also to dynamics
regional economic.
The appointment of a new director is part of this logic of adaptation
managerial and operational.
Through the appointment of new directors at its airports, ONDA sets up the groundwork for its “2030 airport” strategy aimed at modernizing infrastructure, improving passenger experience, fluidifying
routes and strengthen regional integration.
