Mohammed V International Airport (IATA: CMN, ICAO: GMMN) (French: Aéroport international Mohammed V / Arabic: مطار محمد الخامس الدولي / transliterated: Matar Muhammad al-Khamis ad-Dowaly) is an airport operated by ONDA (National Airports Office). Located in Province of Nouaceur, a suburb 30 km south-east of Casablanca, it is the busiest airport in Morocco with almost 7.25 million passengers passing through the airport in 2010. It was named after the late Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco.
The airport is the hub of Morocco's flag carrier Royal Air Maroc, Jetairfly, Air Arabia Maroc and Regional Air Lines. The airport was named after King Mohammed V of Morocco and is twinned with the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Yaser Arafat International Airport.
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