{"id":359082,"date":"2026-07-02T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:01:15","slug":"morocco-vs-canada-royal-air-maroc-adds-flights-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359082\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco vs. Canada: Royal Air Maroc adds flights to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline announced Wednesday on Facebook that the 12 flights to Houston could accommodate more than 3,000 fans looking to come to Texas for the team\u2019s round of 16 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>There are regularly no direct flights between Houston and Morocco, per the Houston Airports website.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets started at 10,000 Moroccan Dirham, which is about $1066. However, flights filled up quickly with multiple flights being fully booked around an hour after the initial post, according to a follow-up comment from the airline.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Airports has not responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Royal Air Maroc is running this deal. The airline ran the same promotion ahead of the team\u2019s matchup Monday in Monterrey, Mexico, against the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/article\/morocco-canada-round-of-16-houston-set-22326246.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Morocco won that match<\/a> in penalty kicks after a stoppage time goal from Issa Diop tied the score and sent the game to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions are the highest-ranked African team in the world and became the first African team to make a World Cup semifinals in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t lost a match at the World Cup so far, after tying Brazil and defeating Scotland and Haiti in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco enters the match as the favorites against Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s match is the last of seven World Cup matches in Houston. Previous games have featured a second-half comeback from Brazil to eliminate Japan, Cristiano Ronaldo becoming the first player to score in six World Cups and Cape Verde qualifying for the World Cup knockout stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The airline announced Wednesday on Facebook that the 12 flights to Houston could accommodate more than 3,000 fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-359082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}