What is the best flight route from Australia to Morocco?

There's no nonstop flight from Australia to Morocco — there can't be at that distance — so the real question is which hub you change at. I plan two families of routings for Australian clients, and which one wins depends on whether you want pure speed or a stopover.

The Gulf route is my default for efficiency. Emirates via Dubai, Qatar Airways via Doha and Etihad via Abu Dhabi all feed into Casablanca, and Qatar's Doha–Casablanca service is particularly convenient. From the east coast you're typically looking at around 22–26 hours total with one stop, depending on connection times. Qatar and Emirates also have excellent Australian coverage out of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, so you rarely need a domestic positioning flight first.

The European route is the one I recommend when you want to break the journey. Routing through Paris (Air France), London (British Airways), Madrid (Iberia), Amsterdam (KLM) or Istanbul (Turkish Airlines) lets you spend a few days in Europe on the way, then hop down to Casablanca or Marrakech on a short final leg of three to four hours. Madrid and Paris are especially handy because the onward Morocco flights are frequent and cheap. It's often a similar or slightly longer total time, but the stopover turns dead transit hours into a mini-trip.

A few booking tactics I always apply. Fly open-jaw if you can — into Casablanca, out of Marrakech (or vice versa) — so your Morocco itinerary never has to double back to one airport. Casablanca (CMN) is the main long-haul gateway and Royal Air Maroc's hub; Marrakech (RAK) takes a lot of the European traffic directly. And give yourself a comfortable connection at the hub: after 14-plus hours in the air you do not want a 50-minute sprint between terminals, so I'll deliberately choose a longer layover.

Whichever way you go, build the first day in Morocco as a soft landing. I've routed enough Australians through Dubai and Doha to know that the body clock takes a day to settle, so the itinerary should start with a relaxed riad night, not a six-hour transfer to the dunes.