Flights Casablanca -> Abidjan (CMN-ABJ) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
7 scheduled departures a week link Casablanca (CMN) in Morocco with Abidjan (ABJ) — roughly one a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 5.5 hours.
Flight CMN -> ABJ is operated by Royal Air Maroc, Ethiopian Airlines (~7 flights per week, ~5.5h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy runs about $500-1,500; the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.
Great-circle distance Casablanca–Abidjan is about 3,148 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CMN (33.37, -7.59) and ABJ (5.26, -3.93). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 3,148 km against a scheduled 5.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches CMN–ABJ. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.
Airlines on this route
2 carriers operate CMN–ABJ: Royal Air Maroc (AT) and Ethiopian Airlines (ET). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; the group spans Oneworld and Star Alliance. That mix decides three things — the fare floor, whether your bag is through-checked on a connection, and which delay regulation covers you.
| Carrier | Baggage baseline | Alliance |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Air Maroc (AT) | 23 kg | Oneworld |
| Ethiopian Airlines (ET) | 23 kg | Star Alliance |
The CMN–ABJ carriers do not share one alliance — Oneworld and Star Alliance are represented — and that has a concrete consequence. Mileage earning and lounge access do not carry across the split, and more importantly a connection built across two of these airlines is only through-checked when the two tickets are issued as one. Two separate confirmations mean you collect the bag, clear immigration where required, and check in again — and a missed second flight is your cost, not the airline’s.
Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc and +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.
USD fares — CMN-ABJ
$858 was the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned in our weekly snapshot for CMN–ABJ on HC, for a 2026-12-16T10:20:00+01:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for CMN–ABJ on that date.
As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy on CMN-ABJ runs about $500-1,500; the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Cached fares from a weekly Travelpayouts snapshot appear in the panel below, with their observation date; fare-month seasonality follows.
Across the 5 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on CMN–ABJ was $328 for a Dec 2026 departure and the dearest was $536 for Jul 2026 — a spread of $208 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.
| Departure month | Cheapest one-way seen (USD) |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | $536 |
| Aug 2026 | $375 |
| Sep 2026 | $458 |
| Oct 2026 | $358 |
| Dec 2026 | $328 |
The fare family sits outside our data, and it is the piece that decides the real cost. A cached CMN–ABJ quote records a price, a date and a carrier — not whether a 23 kg bag, a seat or a change is included. Where the corridor’s floor is set by a stripped fare, the ranking on screen reverses once the bag is added.
How much baggage can you take on CMN–ABJ?
23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on CMN–ABJ, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.
Read the baseline as an advertised standard rather than a guarantee. Airlines on CMN–ABJ sell below it through hand-baggage and basic-economy fare families, and those are disproportionately the fares that appear as the corridor’s cheapest quote. The only allowance that binds anyone is the one printed on the ticket you hold.
Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc and +5 kg on Ethiopian Airlines — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.
Is the cheap CMN–ABJ itinerary really nonstop?
5.5 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on CMN–ABJ; any itinerary a search returns well above that is connecting, whatever the screen calls it. “Direct” is a flight-number description, not a promise of a single takeoff and landing. Two separately issued sectors are not one contract.
The distinction is not pedantry. A direct flight keeps one flight number through an intermediate stop, so it can sit in the nonstop filter of a search engine while adding an hour on the ground and a second departure to miss. A connecting itinerary changes flight number and usually aircraft. On CMN–ABJ the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 5.5-hour block time before you compare prices.
The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Abidjan are not one contract: your bag is not through-checked, you re-clear security and often immigration at the transfer point, and if the first leg lands late the second airline owes you nothing — no rebooking, no refund, no duty of care. A single ticket that costs more can be the cheaper outcome the first time anything slips.
Search live fares
7 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live CMN–ABJ search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $858. Scheduled nonstop block time is 5.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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A live CMN–ABJ search is only comparable once three things are pinned: the cabin and passenger count, so totals are like for like; the elapsed time, which separates a genuine nonstop from a routing that merely costs the same; and the baggage the fare includes. Skip any of the three and you are comparing two different products.
If anything about your CMN–ABJ trip can move, make it the dates. The gap between the cheapest and dearest departure month in our own fare log is routinely larger than any difference between one booking site and another. Fixed dates put you in competition with everyone else holding the same date, and the answer there is to book early rather than to keep looking.
About Abidjan
4 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Abidjan (ABJ), Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International, ICAO DIAP, from 4 catalogued origins and 3 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Abidjan, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).
Beyond CMN, our catalogue reaches Abidjan from 3 other origins: Accra (ACC), Addis Ababa (ADD) and Lagos (LOS). That matters when the CMN–ABJ fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.
FAQ
Which airlines fly Casablanca to Abidjan? Direct CMN-ABJ flights are operated by Royal Air Maroc, Ethiopian Airlines. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the CMN-ABJ flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 5.5 hours. The CMN-ABJ route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a CMN-ABJ flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $500-1,500 USD (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare); the fare observation on this page shows what our weekly snapshot recorded and when. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.
What is the checked baggage allowance on CMN-ABJ? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.
What currency is used in Abidjan? Abidjan uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.
Related routes and reading
- Casablanca airport (CMN) — Mohammed V International, Morocco: 17 catalogued departure corridors and 0 arrival corridors.
- Abidjan airport (ABJ) — Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International, Côte d’Ivoire: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 4 arrival corridors.
Each airport page goes wider than this one: every catalogued route at that field, which carriers are actually based there, the alliance spread and the passenger rights regime of its country. That last item is the reason both ends of CMN–ABJ are linked — on a disruption, the departure airport’s jurisdiction is what decides your remedy.