Fès–Saïss Airport FEZ / GMFF

Morocco's fifth-busiest airport as of 2023 traffic (1.72M passengers, +21.5% vs 2019) — corrected from an earlier draft's 'fourth-busiest', which was true only as of 2019 traffic; FEZ has since been overtaken and now ranks 5th. It remains the main air gateway to Fès's UNESCO-listed medina. National ONDA traffic is commonly cited as up sharply in 2024–2025 (roughly +21% in 2024, +11% in 2025), which would put FEZ's CY2025 full year plausibly above 2M, but those national percentages could not be independently corroborated and ONDA has not published a newer per-airport annual figure — treat any 2024/2025 number as an estimate. Single runway 09/27 (3,200m bitumen, 45m wide, asphalt, ref. code 4E). CORRECTED: the 221m/725ft displaced threshold sits on RWY 09, not RWY 27 as previously stated (per SkyVector); Ground handling is commonly reported as split between Swissport Maroc and RAM Handling (Royal Air Maroc) — plausible given ONDA's usual duopoly at Morocco's international airports, but not independently confirmed for FEZ specifically here. Ryanair, Air Arabia Maroc and Royal Air Maroc anchor a schedule concentrated on European leisure routes plus domestic/North African connections through the two-terminal complex (T1 domestic + T2 international, opened June 2017; ~3.0M combined design capacity, corrected from ~2.5M — already tight against current traffic). TIMEZONE ALERT: Morocco confirmed (Morocco World News, 25 Jun 2026) it is ending 8 years of permanent DST and moving to permanent UTC+0 nationwide from 20 Sep 2026 — FEZ is UTC+1 as of (31 Aug 2026) but switches to UTC+0 year-round in three weeks, retiring the old Ramadan clock-change exception.