The Moroccan Airports Authority

The Moroccan Airports Authority (French: Office National Des Aeroports, ONDA, Arabic: ) is the Moroccan airport operator and administrator. The company headquarters are based in Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca. ONDA was established in July 1990 under parliamentary law 14-89. Prior to then, Moroccos airports were administered by the Moroccan Ministry of transport. One year later, ONDA inaugurated Al Massira Airport in Agadir. On 15 September 2003, Abdelhanine Benallou, was nominated as new general manager of ONDA. ONDA helped in supervising the construction of Yasser Arafat International Airport which Mohammed V International Airport is twinned with. It also organized training programs for Palestinian engineers in Morocco in 1997 just months before the inauguration of the airport in Gaza in December 1998. On 12 March 2003, ONDA signed a partnership agreement with Cote dAzur International Airport, Nice, France