Flights Casablanca -> Dubai (CMN-DXB) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency
7 scheduled departures a week link Casablanca (CMN) in Morocco with Dubai (DXB) — roughly one a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 7.5 hours.
Flight CMN -> DXB is operated by Royal Air Maroc, Emirates (~7 flights per week, ~7.5h 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 $500-1,100; 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–Dubai is about 6,080 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CMN (33.37, -7.59) and DXB (25.25, 55.36). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 6,080 km against a scheduled 7.5-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–DXB. 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–DXB: Royal Air Maroc (AT) and Emirates (EK). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines from 23 kg to 30 kg; Royal Air Maroc sits in Oneworld while our table puts Emirates outside a global 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 |
| Emirates (EK) | 30 kg | none |
The baggage baselines are not equal. Emirates records 30 kg in our table against 23 kg on Royal Air Maroc — a 7 kg gap. On a corridor where a second bag is commonly bought at the airport, that gap is often worth more than the fare difference between the two airlines, so compare the all-in number rather than the headline fare.
USD fares — CMN-DXB
$573 was the 2026-W25 reading in our weekly fare log for CMN–DXB, across 2 readings that range $468 to $573.
As a rough planning range (an editorial estimate, not an observed fare), economy on CMN-DXB runs about $500-1,100; 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.
Book 4-8 weeks ahead. Fares rise around the December holidays; mid-week departures are usually the cheapest. That window is general guidance rather than a rule for this single pairing; on a corridor with 7 weekly departures, the practical constraint is often seat availability on the days you can actually travel, not the headline fare.
The fare family sits outside our data, and it is the piece that decides the real cost. A cached CMN–DXB 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.
Visa and entry for United Arab Emirates
Entry rule for United Arab Emirates, by passport: Depends on passport. A visa on arrival is open only to South African and Kenyan passport holders who also hold a valid residence permit from the US, an EU state, the UK, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand or Canada; without one, arrange a UAE visa before travel. Nigeria and Ghana are not on that list. Other passports: check the official UAE rules for your nationality. Fee Visa on arrival: AED 100 (14 days) or AED 250 (60 days); fees for visas arranged in advance vary; maximum stay 14 days (extendable once in the UAE) or 60 days (not extendable) on the visa on arrival.
| Entry type | Fee | Maximum stay | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depends on passport. A visa on arrival is open only to South African and Kenyan passport holders who also hold a valid residence permit from the US, an EU state, the UK, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand or Canada; without one, arrange a UAE visa before travel. Nigeria and Ghana are not on that list. Other passports: check the official UAE rules for your nationality | Visa on arrival: AED 100 (14 days) or AED 250 (60 days); fees for visas arranged in advance vary | 14 days (extendable once in the UAE) or 60 days (not extendable) on the visa on arrival | United Arab Emirates official source |
Worth knowing before you book: Overstaying a UAE visa on arrival is fined AED 50 per day (UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2026).
The trap on CMN–DXB is not usually the destination visa — it is the transit. A connection can put you airside in a third country that requires a transit visa for your nationality even though you never leave the terminal, and airlines deny boarding at origin when documentation for the whole itinerary is not in order. Check every country your ticket touches, not just United Arab Emirates, and check it against your own passport rather than a fellow traveller’s.
Checked baggage and uplift on CMN–DXB — and what is not covered
23–30 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on CMN–DXB, 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.
A baggage baseline is the economy checked allowance an airline advertises as standard. It is not what your ticket necessarily grants. The same airline sells fare families below the baseline — hand-baggage-only and basic-economy buckets are exactly the ones that surface as the cheapest CMN–DXB quote in any fare cache, including ours. The allowance printed on your itinerary overrides any table, ours included.
Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc and +10 kg on Emirates — 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.
Search live fares
7 weekly departures across 2 carriers mean a live CMN–DXB search returns several price points for the same day; our weekly fare log has recorded readings as low as $573 (see the dated history on this page). Scheduled nonstop block time is 7.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.
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Three checks make a live CMN–DXB result comparable. Fix the passenger count and cabin first, because a per-passenger fare and a party total look identical on a results page. Then read the elapsed time next to the price — a one-stop itinerary and the 7.5-hour nonstop are different products at the same number. Then check whether the fare carries the bag you are actually taking.
Date flexibility beats every other lever on CMN–DXB. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.
About Dubai
14 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Dubai (DXB), Dubai International, ICAO OMDB, from 14 catalogued origins and 7 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Dubai, 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.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: AED (we quote in USD throughout this guide).
Beyond CMN, our catalogue reaches Dubai from 13 other origins: Abuja (ABV), Addis Ababa (ADD), Cairo (CAI), Cape Town (CPT), Dar es Salaam (DAR), Dakar (DSS), Durban (DUR), Entebbe (EBB), Harare (HRE), Johannesburg (JNB), Kigali (KGL) and Lagos (LOS), and 1 further catalogued origin listed on the Dubai airport page. That matters when the CMN–DXB 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 Dubai? Direct CMN-DXB flights are operated by Royal Air Maroc, Emirates. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.
How long is the CMN-DXB flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 7.5 hours. The CMN-DXB route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.
How much does a CMN-DXB flight cost and when is it cheapest? Our rough planning range is $500-1,100 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-DXB? 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.
Do I need a visa for United Arab Emirates? depends on passport — there is no general visa on arrival; South African and Kenyan holders of certain residence permits can get one. Visa rules differ by passport — check the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs notice at https://www.mofa.gov.ae/en/mediahub/news/2026/6/25/uae-grants-visa-on-arrival before booking.
Related routes and reading
- Casablanca airport (CMN) — Mohammed V International, Morocco: 17 catalogued departure corridors and 0 arrival corridors.
- Dubai airport (DXB) — Dubai International, United Arab Emirates: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 14 arrival corridors.
The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the CMN–DXB fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Dubai is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.