- "Fly the skies of Aero Casablanca: the airline no one comes back on"
- —Company slogan
Aero-Casablanca is a fictional organization referenced in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise.
Description[]
Aero-Casablanca is an airline service which was active during the 1930s. The catchphrase of Aero-Casablanca was, " the skies of Aero Casablanca: the airline no one comes back on". Based off of their name, it is likely that they were based out of Casablanca, Morocco. Amongst their offerings was, "Aero Casablanca's Belgian Congo River tour" that transported passengers to the Congo for a minimum of twenty-five years.
History[]
Background[]
Aero-Casablanca was a tourism airline service during the mid-late 1930s. By around 1938, they sponsored Disney Broadcasting Company and by extension, their broadcast AWOL Airwaves. One of their airplanes also crashed in the jungles along the Nile in North Africa (nearby Crocodile Country and Umbala Territory), supposedly with a passenger aboard that went on to become a skipper for the colonial Jungle Navigation Company.
Development history[]
Aero-Casablanca is a tribute to the romance film Casablanca (1942). This film was set-designed by Disney imagineer Harper Goff who was one of the original imagineers behind the Jungle Cruise. Disney purchased an allegedly authentic prop from the film in the form of a Lockheed Electra 12A used for the defunct attraction The Great Movie Ride. The backside of this plane was placed in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise as a wrecked airplane in the Congo. In 2021, the plane was retconned into belonging to Hathaway Browne, a character from Pleasure Island.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Albert Awol advertises Aero-Casablanca in his broadcast. On the actual ride, boats pass by an airplane implied to belong to Aero-Casablanca. A possible homage to the removed group can be found in the Amazon River Base where a stone tablet mentions a company called, "Casablanca" leading tours around Africa, with the illustration of a plane.
Trivia[]
- The service's tag-line saying no-one comes back from their tours could reference the wrecked plane along the Jungle Cruise and/or how in Casablanca, Ilsa and Rick's final meeting was before she boarded the plane.
- Skippers would sometimes reference being employed by the JNC after surviving the crash.
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