Guest post courtesy of Ruthi Pratt and Hamer Farag of @twogetoutside:
Having flown Royal Air Maroc before with less than great results, we knew going into this experience that it was going to be rough. In fact, the only reason we chose to fly with them again was because we had gotten refunded tickets from our previous trips. We knew to expect that they wouldn’t leave on time and that it would be poorly managed. However, we did not expect that they would mess up our reservation by switching our first and last names, make us wait an hour to receive our boarding passes, make us wait on an additional line in passport control, try to trick us into sitting separately, take off almost 2 hours after the scheduled departure, and then lose our luggage (and everyone else’s) due to a strike. We waited 2.5 hours to report that our bags were missing, and were without our bags (including essential clean clothes) for 3 days.
Pro-tip: If you’ve got the opportunity, utilize the airport lounge. The one that we went to had a ton of amenities including the ever-essential wifi password, a variety of hot and cold foods, showers, and extra comfy work stations. It’s a great way to relieve an otherwise very stressful experience. Also, don’t ever fly Air Maroc.