Air France vs Royal Air Maroc
Royal Air Maroc scores 9/10 against Air France at 8/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare.
By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026
Best product each one flies
Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.
One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.
Air France
A350-900 / 777 (new Business Suite)
- Seat
- 10/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 4/10
- Product score
- 8/10
Royal Air Maroc
787-9
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 10/10
- Product score
- 9/10
Dimension by dimension
Seat: Air France
10/10 on the A350-900 / 777 (new Business Suite) against 8/10 on the 787-9.
IFE: level
Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 8/10.
Lounge & bags: level
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.
Value: Royal Air Maroc
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 4/10 against 10/10.
Where both were priced on the same dates
Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.
| Route | Cabin | Air France | Royal Air Maroc | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAX → BCN | economy | $752 | $564 | Royal Air Maroc by $188 |
| LAX → MXP | economy | $1051 | $620 | Royal Air Maroc by $431 |
| LAX → LIS | economy | $803 | $621 | Royal Air Maroc by $182 |
| LAX → VLC | economy | $895 | $621 | Royal Air Maroc by $274 |
| LAX → CDG | economy | $1314 | $625 | Royal Air Maroc by $689 |
| LAX → LGW | economy | $1034 | $653 | Royal Air Maroc by $381 |
| IAD → FCO | economy | $1866 | $682 | Royal Air Maroc by $1184 |
| LAX → IST | economy | $1361 | $730 | Royal Air Maroc by $631 |
| LAX → VCE | economy | $1316 | $736 | Royal Air Maroc by $580 |
| IAD → VLC | economy | $1375 | $752 | Royal Air Maroc by $623 |
| MIA → BOD | economy | $890 | $785 | Royal Air Maroc by $105 |
| MIA → CDG | economy | $885 | $795 | Royal Air Maroc by $90 |
| IAD → CDG | economy | $1244 | $799 | Royal Air Maroc by $445 |
| IAD → MXP | economy | $1790 | $807 | Royal Air Maroc by $983 |
| MIA → IST | economy | $1567 | $813 | Royal Air Maroc by $754 |
| JFK → VLC | economy | $838 | $824 | Royal Air Maroc by $14 |
| MIA → LGW | economy | $1047 | $830 | Royal Air Maroc by $217 |
| LAX → BOD | economy | $849 | $931 | Air France by $82 |
| IAD → LGW | economy | $927 | $862 | Royal Air Maroc by $65 |
| JFK → BOD | economy | $1954 | $945 | Royal Air Maroc by $1009 |
| IAD → BOD | economy | $1707 | $1081 | Royal Air Maroc by $626 |
| IAD → BCN | business | $7390 | $4043 | Royal Air Maroc by $3347 |
| IAD → VLC | business | $10098 | $4087 | Royal Air Maroc by $6011 |
| JFK → BOD | business | $12206 | $4141 | Royal Air Maroc by $8065 |
| IAD → BOD | business | $14237 | $4141 | Royal Air Maroc by $10096 |
| IAD → VCE | business | $14393 | $4226 | Royal Air Maroc by $10167 |
| JFK → NCE | business | $12207 | $4227 | Royal Air Maroc by $7980 |
| LAX → LIS | business | $6822 | $4290 | Royal Air Maroc by $2532 |
| IAD → CDG | business | $12191 | $4303 | Royal Air Maroc by $7888 |
| MIA → BOD | business | $11257 | $4321 | Royal Air Maroc by $6936 |
| JFK → VLC | business | $5968 | $4386 | Royal Air Maroc by $1582 |
| MIA → NCE | business | $9667 | $4407 | Royal Air Maroc by $5260 |
| IAD → IST | business | $8044 | $4443 | Royal Air Maroc by $3601 |
| JFK → LGW | business | $5205 | $4482 | Royal Air Maroc by $723 |
| LAX → VLC | business | $5980 | $4486 | Royal Air Maroc by $1494 |
| LAX → BCN | business | $7407 | $4582 | Royal Air Maroc by $2825 |
| IAD → MXP | business | $11661 | $4617 | Royal Air Maroc by $7044 |
| MIA → IST | business | $8044 | $4622 | Royal Air Maroc by $3422 |
| LAX → MXP | business | $8625 | $4649 | Royal Air Maroc by $3976 |
| LAX → FCO | business | $7241 | $4681 | Royal Air Maroc by $2560 |
| IAD → NCE | business | $14237 | $4697 | Royal Air Maroc by $9540 |
| LAX → VCE | business | $4943 | $4765 | Royal Air Maroc by $178 |
| LAX → CDG | business | $12561 | $4842 | Royal Air Maroc by $7719 |
| IAD → LGW | business | $6035 | $4981 | Royal Air Maroc by $1054 |
| MIA → LGW | business | $7305 | $5181 | Royal Air Maroc by $2124 |
| LAX → BOD | business | $6137 | $5202 | Royal Air Maroc by $935 |
| LAX → NCE | business | $6127 | $5297 | Royal Air Maroc by $830 |
| LAX → FRA | business | $7079 | $5407 | Royal Air Maroc by $1672 |
| LAX → LGW | business | $6355 | $5481 | Royal Air Maroc by $874 |
| LAX → IST | business | $8544 | $5537 | Royal Air Maroc by $3007 |
Common questions
- Is Air France or Royal Air Maroc better to Europe?
- Royal Air Maroc scores 9/10 against Air France at 8/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Air France wins 1 and Royal Air Maroc wins 1. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
- Which is cheaper, Air France or Royal Air Maroc?
- On the 50 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Air France was cheaper on 1 and Royal Air Maroc on 49. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
- Does the aircraft change the answer?
- Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.
- Has Jon flown either of these?
- Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.
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