Are there internal flights in Morocco and are they worth it?

There is a working domestic network, anchored by Royal Air Maroc and its low-cost arm, plus seasonal budget routes. It connects the main hubs — Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Agadir — and reaches a few further-flung airports like Errachidia near the desert and the south. Flights themselves are short, usually under an hour and a half.

Where flying genuinely earns its place is the long legs the railway cannot do directly. Marrakech to Fes is the classic example: by train you change at Casablanca for the better part of a day, by road it is an 8-hour drive, but the flight is about an hour. If those two cities are simply separate stays and you have no interest in the country in between, flying saves you a full day.

For everything else, I am sceptical. Once you add getting to the airport, checking in, security, boarding, and the taxi at the far end, a one-hour flight balloons into half a day — and for routes like Casablanca to Marrakech the train already does it in 3 comfortable hours, city centre to city centre. Short hops rarely beat the train or a driver once you do that honest arithmetic.

My rule of thumb: fly only when the alternative is a very long drive or a multi-leg train day, and when the cities are endpoints rather than part of a road trip. The desert, the mountains and the coast are about the journey, so flying past them defeats the purpose. Book domestic flights early — fares and seat availability tighten quickly in peak season.