Flights from Casablanca to Dakar (CMN-DKR): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Casablanca -> Dakar (CMN-DKR) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

7 scheduled departures a week link Casablanca (CMN) in Morocco with Dakar (DKR) — roughly one a day — flown by 2 catalogued carriers at a scheduled block time near 3.8 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 7/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Flight CMN -> DKR is operated by Royal Air Maroc, Air Senegal (~7 flights per week, ~3.8h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Casablanca–Dakar is about 2,299 km, computed from the stored coordinates of CMN (33.37, -7.59) and DKR (14.74, -17.49). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 2,299 km against a scheduled 3.8-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–DKR. 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–DKR: Royal Air Maroc (AT) and Air Senegal (HC). Our carrier table records checked-baggage baselines of 23 kg; Royal Air Maroc sits in Oneworld while our table puts Air Senegal 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.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +23 kg on Royal Air Maroc. 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-DKR

$599 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for CMN–DKR on HC, for a 2027-01-03T10:20:00+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–DKR on that date.

Typical economy fares on CMN-DKR sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Across the 6 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on CMN–DKR is $211 for a Jan 2027 departure and the dearest is $440 for Jul 2026 — a spread of $229 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.

The $599 quote in our cache is a nonstop itinerary of 16 h 35 m, which is the cleanest case: one flight number, one bag tag, one carrier responsible end to end. It also means the price floor on CMN–DKR does not depend on a connection holding together, so a delay costs you time rather than a missed onward sector.

Baggage on CMN–DKR: baselines, uplift and the exclusions

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 2 airlines on CMN–DKR, 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–DKR 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 — 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.

Nonstop, direct and one-stop on CMN–DKR

3.8 hours is the scheduled nonstop block time on CMN–DKR; 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–DKR the practical test is the elapsed-time figure: compare it against the 3.8-hour block time before you compare prices.

The second trap is the ticket, not the routing. Two cheap sectors bought separately to reach Dakar 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–DKR search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $599. Scheduled nonstop block time is 3.8 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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A live CMN–DKR 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–DKR 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 Dakar

2 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Dakar (DKR), Blaise Diagne International, ICAO GOBD, from 2 catalogued origins and 2 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Dakar, 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.

Dakar, Senegal — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Beyond CMN, our catalogue reaches Dakar from 1 other origin: Accra (ACC). That matters when the CMN–DKR 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.

Dakar is a based hub for Air Senegal. A hub airport behaves differently from an outstation: connecting banks are built around it, spare aircraft and crew sit there, and a disruption is far more likely to be recovered the same day. It also means the hub carrier usually sets the price on routes into DKR, and competitors price against it rather than the other way round.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Casablanca to Dakar? Direct CMN-DKR flights are operated by Royal Air Maroc, Air Senegal. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the CMN-DKR flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 3.8 hours. The CMN-DKR route runs roughly 7 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a CMN-DKR flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. 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-DKR? 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 Dakar? Dakar uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 pages below connect to CMN–DKR through the data: a shared airport, a shared operating carrier, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. Each is annotated with what it actually contains, so you can decide before clicking. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Casablanca airport (CMN) — Mohammed V International, Morocco: 17 catalogued departure corridors and 0 arrival corridors.
• Dakar airport (DKR) — Blaise Diagne International, Senegal: 4 catalogued departure corridors and 2 arrival corridors.

These links come out of the data rather than an editorial wish-list. Two pages are connected when they share an airport, a carrier, a destination country or an audience cluster, which means the list is stable as the catalogue grows and does not drift toward whatever term happens to rank. Skip what does not match your trip.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the CMN–DKR fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Dakar 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.