Agadir to welcome direct flights from Helsinki this winter

Travellers from Finland will be able to fly directly to Agadir in Morocco once a week this winter, under a new seasonal service announced by Finnish airline Finnair. The flights will run from 14 October 2026 to 24 March 2027, connecting Helsinki with Agadir-Al Massira Airport. The journey will take about five hours and 50 minutes, with flights operated by Airbus A321 aircraft.

The route will operate as a scheduled charter service under flight numbers AY2061 and AY2062.

From 28 October, flight AY2061 will leave Helsinki every Wednesday at 11:35 and arrive in Agadir at 16:25 local time. The return flight, AY2062, will depart Agadir at 17:15 and arrive in Helsinki at 23:55.

Agadir-Al Massira Airport is about 27 km southeast of the city centre.

Finnair, a member of the Oneworld airline alliance, is promoting Agadir as a winter holiday destination, highlighting its sandy beaches, Atlantic coastline and year-round sunshine. Other attractions include surfing, golf, wellness treatments, traditional markets and coastal promenades.

Passengers travelling from other Finnish cities, including Oulu, will be able to reach Agadir with a connection through Helsinki.

The Agadir service joins Finnair’s winter programme for the 2026–2027 season, which began on 25 October.

The airline plans to operate a record 25 weekly flights to Thailand, including up to 18 flights to Bangkok, two to Krabi and five to Phuket.

In October, Finnair is also launching its first route to Australia, serving Melbourne. Its 2026 network covers 93 cities in Europe, 11 in Asia, seven in North America and two in the Middle East.

The new route adds to growing air links between Nordic countries and the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

Norwegian launched a direct service between Helsinki and Agadir on 30 November 2018. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) introduced weekly flights to Agadir from Stockholm and Copenhagen on 4 November 2023. Latvian national carrier airBaltic launched flights from Riga on the same day.

The new flights come as Agadir expands its airport to handle more passengers.

Agadir-Al Massira is the third-largest airport in the national network, after Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca and Marrakech-Menara Airport.

It handled 3.5 million passengers in 2025, an increase of 11.07% on the previous year, according to the National Airports Office (ONDA).

Passenger traffic reached 1.29 million by the end of April 2026, up 10.79% compared with the same period in 2025.

ONDA awarded a 2.2bn-dirham contract to Moroccan construction company Société Générale des Travaux du Maroc (SGTM) in August 2025 to expand the airport terminal.

The project will increase the terminal’s area to 75,000 square metres and raise annual passenger capacity from three million to seven million.

The expansion is part of preparations for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which Morocco will co-host.

It also forms part of the Airports 2030 strategy, a 38bn-dirham investment programme designed to increase the total annual capacity of airports across the country to 80 million passengers.

The plan covers major airports in Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, Rabat and Tangier.

The expansion of air links and airport infrastructure comes as visitor numbers and tourism revenues continue to grow.

Morocco received 15.7 million tourist arrivals by the end of September 2026, up 5% compared with the same period in 2025, according to the Ministry of Tourism, Handicrafts, and Social and Solidarity Economy.

September alone saw more than 1.5 million arrivals, an increase of 8% year on year.

The figures follow a record year in 2025, when the country welcomed 19.8 million tourists.

“The target of 26 million tourists by 2030 is closer than ever,” outgoing tourism minister Fatim-Zahra Ammor said.

Travel receipts reached 97.9bn dirhams by the end of August 2026, an increase of 9.7%, according to the Foreign Exchange Office.

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