Tunis–Carthage International Airport (Redirected from 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
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
11/29 2,840 9,318 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers6,441,886
Source: DAFIF

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. 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

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. The Tunis Airfield opened in 1938, serving around 5,800 passengers annually on the Paris-Tunis route.

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:

Once the combat units moved to Italy, Air Transport Command used the airport as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

Terminal 2 exterior

Airlines and destinations

Tarmac view
Departure gate area
Terminal from the outside

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Afriqiyah Airways Bayda, Benghazi, Tripoli–Mitiga
Air Algérie Algiers
Air Arabia Casablanca
Air Europa Seasonal: Madrid
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris−Orly
Seasonal: Marseille, Nice
Egyptair Cairo
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Hamburg, Stuttgart
Fly Baghdad Baghdad
ITA Airways Rome–Fiumicino
Libyan Airlines Bayda, Benghazi, Tobruk, Tripoli–Mitiga
Libyan Wings Misrata, Tripoli–Mitiga
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Nouvelair Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, Lille, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Munich, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Saint Petersburg, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Seasonal: Algiers, Copenhagen, Jeddah, Medina, Moscow–Vnukovo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Royal Jordanian Amman–Queen Alia
Saudia Jeddah
Transavia Lyon, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Marseille, Montpellier, Nice
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi
Tunisair Abidjan, Algiers, Bamako, Barcelona, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Conakry, Constantine, Cotonou, Dakar–Diass, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul, Jeddah, Khartoum, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Medina, Milan–Malpensa, Montréal–Trudeau, Munich, Nantes, Niamey, Nice, Nouakchott, Oran, Ouagadougou, Palermo, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli–Mitiga, Venice, Vienna, Zürich
Seasonal: Prague
Tunisair Express Constantine, Djerba, Malta, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Sfax, Tozeur
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

Cargo

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

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at TUN airport. See Wikidata query.

Other facilities

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

Ground transportation

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

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.

See also


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