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Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Coordinates: 36°51′04″N 010°13′38″E / 36.85111°N 10.22722°E / 36.85111; 10.22722
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Tunis–Carthage International Airport
Aéroport international de Tunis-Carthage
مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorTunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority
ServesGrand Tunis
LocationTunis, Tunisia
Opened1944
Hub for
Built1920
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
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
11/29 2,840 9,318 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers7,249,701[1]
Source: DAFIF[2][3][4]

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] Syphax Airlines commenced a direct flight to Montreal in April 2014.[9]

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[10]
Afriqiyah Airways Misrata[11]
Air Europa Seasonal: Madrid[12]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[13]
Berniq Airways Benghazi[14]
Buraq Air Tripoli–Mitiga[15]
Egyptair Cairo[16]
Emirates Dubai–International[17]
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi[18]
Eurowings Düsseldorf[19]
Seasonal: Stuttgart[20]
Ghadames Air Transport Tripoli–Mitiga[21][22]
Iraqi Airways Baghdad[23]
ITA Airways Rome–Fiumicino[24]
Libyan Airlines Misrata,[11] Tripoli–Mitiga[11]
Libyan Wings Tripoli–Mitiga[25]
Lufthansa Frankfurt[26]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg (resumes 4 July 2026)[27][28]
Mauritania Airlines Nouakchott[29]
Nouvelair Algiers,[30] Barcelona,[31] Basel/Mulhouse,[32] Berlin,[32] Bologna,[33] Bordeaux,[34] Brussels,[35] Düsseldorf,[32] Frankfurt,[32] Geneva,[32] Istanbul,[36] Lille,[35] London–Gatwick,[37] Lyon,[35] Marseille,[35] Milan–Malpensa,[38] Munich,[32] Nantes,[35] Nice,[35] Oran,[39] Rabat,[40] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[35] Strasbourg,[35] Toulouse[35]
Seasonal: Palermo (begins 16 June 2026),[41] Venice (begins 15 June 2026)[41]
Qatar Airways Doha[17]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca[42]
Royal Jordanian Amman–Queen Alia[43]
Transavia Lyon,[44] Marseille,[44] Montpellier,[44] Nantes,[44] Nice,[44] Paris–Orly[44]
Tunisair Abidjan,[45] Algiers,[45] Bamako,[46] Bologna,[47] Bordeaux,[48] Brussels,[49] Cairo,[45] Casablanca,[46] Conakry,[46] Dakar–Diass,[46] Düsseldorf,[50] Frankfurt,[47] Geneva,[51] Istanbul,[52] Lisbon,[46] London–Gatwick,[53] London–Heathrow,[37] Lyon,[54] Madrid,[46] Marseille,[54] Milan–Malpensa,[55] Montréal–Trudeau,[56] Munich,[57] Niamey,[45] Nice,[54] Nouakchott,[45] Oran,[46] Ouagadougou,[45] Paris–Orly,[54] Rome–Fiumicino,[55] Strasbourg,[49] Toulouse,[58] Tripoli–Mitiga,[46] Venice[46]
Tunisair Express Djerba,[59] Malta,[60] Naples,[61] Palermo,[61] Tozeur[59]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[52]
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona[62]
Tunis–Carthage International Airport passenger destinations

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
Emirates SkyCargo[63] Dubai–Al Maktoum
Express Air Cargo[64] Bengaluru, Casablanca, Cologne/Bonn, Hong Kong, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Sharjah
Turkish Cargo[65] Istanbul

Statistics

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PassengersYear01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,00019501960197019801990200020102020PassengersAnnual passenger traffic

Other facilities

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The head office of the Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) is on the airport property.[66]

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.[67]

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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