Air Arabia (Sharjah) has reached a new agreement with Regional Air Lines (Casablanca) in order to establish a new base at Rabat. Oddly Regional operates through a Casablanca hub and does not currently serve Rabat. However this will give Air Arabia access to new markets in North Africa, the Mediterranean and southern Europe. Under the agreement Air Arabia will assume management control of Regional. As the first private airline in Morocco, Regional was established in 1996 and commenced operations in July 1997. It currently operates two King Airs, four Beech 1900Ds and four ATR 42-300s on regional routes.
Air Arabia will move some of its Airbus A320s to this new operation. It is unclear at this time if Regional will operate under the Air Arabia brand.
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According to AA the new operation WILL operate under the ABY brand.