Morocco is Ryanair’s biggest market in the Middle East, says the low-cost airline

Morocco is Ryanair’s biggest market in the Middle East, wrote Reuters Monday, quoting the Irish low-cost airline’s head.

Speaking about expanding the firm’s routes to Jordan, Ryanair’s Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said that the firm is planning to fly 150 million passengers in 2019, with «the vast majority on routes in the European Union and in non-EU countries, including Israel and Morocco».

According to the same source, Morocco tops the list of Middle Eastern countries operated by the Irish company with «2.5 million passengers annually», followed by «Israel which gets 1.3 million».