Jordan airliner suspends flights to Casablanca

Jordanian airlines will suspend its two weekly flights to Casablanca starting from February, Samir Al Majali the company's General Manager announced here Sunday.

Al Majali told the press the decision was taken following an exhaustive study of the profitability of Amman-Casablanca route.

The Jordanian airliner also decided to suspend flights to Kuala Lampur and Djakarta and start other flights to Moscow, Barcelona and Khartoum.

The Jordanian newspaper "addustour" commented on this decision Sunday, saying "it would have negative repercussions on Moroccan-Jordanian relations and economic exchanges."

The paper said in case the decision is carried out it would be "really catastrophic" and will greatly damage the efforts made by the government (of Amman) to promote relations with Morocco."

For "Addustour," the decision is even more stunning as it comes in the wake of the high Morocco-Jordanian commission meeting that will probe means to bolster bilateral relations.

The decision, it pointed out, also coincides with the entry into force of the free trade agreement signed between Morocco, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, recalling that the accord would allow access to the European market thanks to cooperation between the two states' industrialists and businessmen.