Tunis-Carthage International Airport
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| Tunis-Carthage International Airport مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي |
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| IATA: TUN – ICAO: DTTA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority | ||
| Location | Tunis, Tunisia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft / 7 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 01/19 | 10,499 | 3,200 | Asphalt |
| 11/29 | 9,318 | 2,840 | Asphalt |
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Tunis-Carthage International Airport (Arabic: مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي) (IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport serving Tunis, Tunisia.
The airport is named for the historic city of Carthage, located just north of the airport. It is the base of operations for four airlines- Tunisair, Nouvelair Tunisia, Sevenair and Tunisavia - and in 2004, served approximately 3.4 million passengers.
All ground handling is provided by Tunisair Handling, a 100% subsidiary of Tunisair, and security services are provided by the Police and the Customs.
The airport is served by bus, taxi, but not by railway.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air Europa (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Air France (Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai, Tripoli)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Jetairfly (Bruxelles)
- Libyan Airlines (Benghazi, Tripoli)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Qatar Airways (Doha) [1]
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Medina)
- Sevenair (Malta, Palermo, Djerba, Gabes, Gafsa, Monastir, Tabarka, Tozeur )[1]
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn)
- Tunisair (Abidjan, Algiers, Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Belgrade, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuwait, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Nouakchott, Oran, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- XL Airways France ( Paris-Charles de Gaulle, )
[edit] Notable incidents
On May 7, 2002, an EgyptAir Boeing 737 attempting to land from Cairo crashed 4 miles from the airport, killing 14 of the 62 people on board.
[edit] External links
- Airport information for DTTA at World Aero Data
- TUNISIAN CIVIL AVIATION AND AIRPORTS AUTHORITY (OACA)
