This morning, MoTIC has posted that the websites of Ryanair, a popular low-cost airline which recently began offering flights to Morocco, has been blocked.
Une partie de la censure de Maroc Telecom se fait pour des raisons économiques pour défendre ses propres produits (comme la téléphonie longue distance en bloquant des services de VoIP) ou pour défendre certains intérêts économiques du gouvernement ou d'entreprises publiques. C'est le cas pour la compagnie aérienne Royal Air Maroc que Maroc Telecom essaie de protéger au Maroc en bloquant l'accès aux sites de la compagnie aérienne low cost Ryanair.
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I’ve been unable to access Ryanair.com in Spain for 3 days but a friend has managed twice to reach the home page very early in the morning.
This will add extra cost to check and go paassengers who have to pay about 20 euros for boarding cards if they can’t print them from the ryanair website.
It would not make any sense for the Moroccan government to allow Maroc Telecom to block any Ryan Air websites,as Morocco has just signed an agreement with Ryan Air to expand Ryan Air’s operations into Morocco by setting up a hub at Marrakech,so there is little logic in this rumour.
The more tourists that Ryan brings to Morocco the better it is for the Moroccan economy and their Tourist industry. Also don’t forget that Royal Air Maroc has its own very successful low cost carrier called “Atlas Blue”.
The Moroccan government’s agreement and acceptance to an “open skies” policy is a fundamental factor in the success of Morocco’s booming Tourist industry.
Five years ago Morocco had 2 million tourists a year, today it has 8 million, and it is their intention to have 10 million by 2010.
The last thing that they would wish is hinder Ryan or any other airline in bringing in valuable tourists ready to spend money in their Tourist sector!
Let’s have a reality check on this……..!!!????
I’ve been trying to access it for several days now (from South Africa), and today still no luck.
Can’t be good for business!
in belgium it doesn’t work since this morning.
Problems..
Blocked in London since Monday morning first thing at least
My ISP (In Ireland) tells me that they have heard on the grapevine that Ryanair are migrating servers at present, and it appears that something has gone very badly wrong with the process, and DNS records are being changed regularly, and DNS resolutions are failing as a result, so attempts to contact their site are failing.
There’s no indication how long this will continue, but it’s bad at the moment.
It is still impossible to open directly Ryanair’s website in Morocco.
Access to Ryanair’s websites has been restored late yesterday (june 5th) by Maroc Telecom.
Configure your computer to use OpenDNS’ DNS servers and then you’ll have access to Ryanair’s website. Instructions are at http://www.opendns.com/start .
OpenDNS is blocked by Maroc Telecom. There are different ways to bypass censorship, but that is not the point.