Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Aéroport international de Tunis-Carthage

مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorTunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority
ServesTunis
LocationTunis, Tunisia
Hub for
Elevation AMSL22 ft / 7 m
Coordinates36°51′04″N 010°13′38″E / 36.85111°N 10.22722°E / 36.85111; 10.22722
Website[1]
Map
TUN is located in Tunisia
TUN
TUN
Location of airport in Tunisia
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
11/29 2,840 9,318 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers6,649,912[1]

Tunis–Carthage International Airport, (French: Aéroport de Tunis-Carthage, Arabic: مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي, IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.[5] It serves as the home base for Tunisair, Tunisair Express, Nouvelair Tunisia, and Tunisavia. The airport is named for the historic city of Carthage, located just east of the airport.

History

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Tunis Airport in 1952.

The history of the airport dates back to 1920 when the first seaplane base in Tunisia was built on the Lake of Tunis for the seaplanes of Compagnie Aéronavale.[6] The Tunis Airfield opened in 1938, serving around 5,800 passengers annually on the Paris-Tunis route.[7]

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Air Force Twelfth Air Force as a headquarters and command control base for the Italian Campaign of 1943. The following known units were assigned:[8]

Once the combat units moved to Italy, Air Transport Command used the airport as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel.[citation needed] It functioned as a stopover en route to Algiers airport or to Mellaha Field near Tripoli, Libya on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route. Later, as the Allied forces advanced, it also flew personnel and cargo to Naples, Italy.[citation needed]

Construction on the Tunis-Carthage Airport, which was fully funded by France, began in 1944, and in 1948 the airport become the main hub for Tunisair. The airline started operations with Douglas DC-3s flying from Tunis-Carthage Airport to Marseille, Ajaccio, Bastia, Algiers, Rome, Sfax, Djerba, and Tripoli, Libya. The passenger traffic grew steadily from 1951 when 56,400 passengers were carried, 33,400 of them by Air France.[7] The airport offered a convenient stop-over point for several other French airlines over the years, including Aigle Azur with a stop in Tunis on the Paris-Brazzaville route, and TAI (Intercontinental Air Transport) with a stop in Tunis on its Paris-Saigon route. Among foreign companies, the TWA was present, whose lines Rome-New York and Rome-Bombay made stop in Tunis, and the LAI (Italian company) which made the connection Rome-Palermo-Tunis.[7]

In 1997, the airport terminal was expanded to 57,448 m2 (618,365 sq ft); it consists of two floors (departure and arrival) and has a capacity of 4,400,000 passengers per year.[citation needed] In 2005, the terminal was expanded another 5,500 m2 (59,202 sq ft), and now has a capacity of 500,000 more passengers annually. On 23 September 2006 a new terminal opened for charter flights.[citation needed]

Terminal 2 exterior

Airlines and destinations

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Tarmac view
Departure gate area
Terminal from the outside

Passenger

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AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Afriqiyah Airways Bayda, Benghazi, Tripoli–Mitiga
Air Algérie Algiers
Air Arabia Casablanca[9]
Air Europa Seasonal: Madrid
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris−Orly
Seasonal: Marseille,[10] Nice[11]
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich (begins 19 December 2024)[12]
Egyptair Cairo
Emirates Dubai–International
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi (begins 1 November 2025)[13][14]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Berlin,[15] Stuttgart[16]
ITA Airways[17] Rome–Fiumicino
Libyan Airlines Bayda, Benghazi, Tobruk, Tripoli–Mitiga
Libyan Wings Misrata, Tripoli–Mitiga
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Mauritania Airlines Nouakchott
Nouvelair[18] Basel/Mulhouse,[19] Berlin, Bologna,[20] Bordeaux, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt,[21] Geneva, Istanbul, Lille, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Munich,[22] Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rabat, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Seasonal: Algiers, Barcelona, Casablanca, Copenhagen,[23] Hamburg, Jeddah, Madrid, Medina, Oran (begins 19 December 2024),[24] Stockholm–Arlanda[25]
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Royal Jordanian Amman–Queen Alia
Saudia Jeddah
Transavia Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Nice[26]
TUI fly Belgium Brussels[27]
Tunisair Abidjan, Algiers, Bamako, Barcelona, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Conakry, Constantine, Dakar–Diass, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, Jeddah, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Montréal–Trudeau, Munich, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Oran, Ouagadougou, Palermo, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli–Mitiga, Venice, Vienna
Seasonal: Lisbon,[28] Medina, Zürich[29]
Seasonal charter: Skopje,[30] Tirana[30]
Tunisair Express Constantine, Djerba, Malta, Naples, Palermo, Rome–Fiumicino, Sfax, Tozeur
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
Emirates SkyCargo[31] Dubai–Al Maktoum
Express Air Cargo[32][33] Bangalore, Casablanca, Cologne/Bonn, Hong Kong, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Sharjah
Turkish Cargo[34] Istanbul

Statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at TUN airport. See Wikidata query.

Other facilities

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The head office of the Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) is on the airport property.[35]

Ground transportation

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The airport is served by bus lines and taxis, but not by a railway (the L'Aéroport station on the TGM suburban rail line does not actually serve it, being several kilometers distant).

Accidents and incidents

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On 7 May 2002, EgyptAir Flight 843, a Boeing 737 from Cairo crashed 4 miles from Tunis–Carthage International Airport. Of the 62 people on board, 14 were killed.[36]

See also

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References

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Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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  2. ^ "Airport information for DTTA". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  3. ^ Airport information for TUN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ^ List of the busiest airports in Africa
  5. ^ Tunis–Carthage International Airport Archived 17 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA) Archived 25 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Philippe Bonnichon; Pierre Gény; Jean Nemo (2012). Présences françaises outre-mer, XVIe-XXIe siècles. KARTHALA Editions. p. 453. ISBN 978-2-8111-0737-6. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Encyclopedie Mensuelle d'Outre-mer staff (1954). Tunisia 54. Negro Universities Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780837124421. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  8. ^ Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
  9. ^ Liu, Jim (14 January 2019). "Air Arabia Maroc schedules new routes in S19". Routesonline. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Air France renforce ses vols avec la Tunisie". Visas Voyages Algérie. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Air France annonce 8 nouvelles destinations au départ de Nice cet été". 9 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Edelweiss Air Adds Zurich - Tunis in NW24". AeroRoutes. 23 June 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  13. ^ "Etihad announces 10 new routes; flights to begin 2025". Khaleej Times. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  14. ^ "Etihad 2025 Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  15. ^ "Eurowings Adds Berlin - Tunis in 3Q24". AeroRoutes. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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  17. ^ itaspa.com - Network retrieved 1 November 2021
  18. ^ "Cheap flights with Nouvelair". nouvelair.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  19. ^ "Nouvelair inaugure sa nouvelle ligne aérienne Tunis – Bâle". 15 March 2023.
  20. ^ "Cheap flight tickets Tunisia : Private airline companie Nouvelair".
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  24. ^ "Nouvelair Tunisie Adds Oran Service From Dec 2024". AeroRoutes. 8 October 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  25. ^ "NOUVELAIR TUNISIE ADDS STOCKHOLM FLIGHT FROM JUNE 2023". Aeroroutes. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  26. ^ Transavia
  27. ^ "TUIfly Belgium 2023 North Africa Network Additions". AeroRoutes.
  28. ^ "Tunisair Resumes Lisbon Service from May 2024".
  29. ^ "Tunisair Resumes Zurich Service in NS24". AeroRoutes.
  30. ^ a b "Tunisar Adds Skopje / Tirana Charters in NS24".
  31. ^ eskycargo.emirates.com - Schedules retrieved 6 November 2021
  32. ^ "Our fleet - Global Air Network". Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  33. ^ "Express Air Cargo to operate cargo service to Hong Kong, Sharjah and Bangalore every Saturday and Tuesday from Tunis". Express Air Cargo. 23 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  34. ^ turkishcargo.com - Flight Schedule retrieved 6 November 2021
  35. ^ "Welcome to the OACA Archived 25 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine." Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority. Retrieved on 26 January 2011. "GENERAL DIRECTION and SOCIAL HEAD OFFICE International Airport Tunis-Carthage BP 137 et 147- 1080 TUNIS CEDEX – TELEX 13809 – OACA RC 871."
  36. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-566 SU-GBI Tunis-Carthage Airport (TUN)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
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