| Tunis–Carthage Airport Aéroport international de Tunis-Carthage مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي |
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| IATA: TUN – ICAO: DTTA
TUN
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority | ||
| Location | Tunis, Tunisia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft / 7 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 01/19 | 3,200 | 10,499 | Asphalt |
| 11/29 | 2,840 | 9,318 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 4,600,000 | ||
| Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2] | |||
Tunis–Carthage Airport (French: Aéroport de Tunis-Carthage, Arabic: مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي) (IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport serving Tunis in Tunisia.[3]
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, Tunisair Express and Tunisavia. In 2010, it served 4,600,000 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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The following scheduled passenger airlines use Tunis–Carthage International Airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Afriqiyah Airways | Misrata, Tripoli |
| Aigle Azur | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Algérie | Algiers |
| Air France | Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse [begins 1 April 2012] |
| Air One | Milan-Malpensa |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick |
| Buraq Air | Benghazi, Tripoli |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn [begins 30 March 2012] |
| Libyan Airlines | Benghazi, Misurata, Sebha, Tripoli |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Qatar Airways | Casablanca, Doha |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah |
| Tunisair | Abidjan, Algiers, Amsterdam, Athens, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Belgrade, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Kuwait, Lille, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Marseille, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Manchester, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nantes, Nice, Nouakchott, Oran, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Zurich |
| TunisAir Express | Djerba, Gabès, Gafsa, Malta, Monastir, Naples, Palermo, Tabarka, Tozeur |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
The Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) has its head office on the airport property.[4]
During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force during the Italian Campaign in 1943 as a headquarters and command control base. The following known units were assigned:[5]
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 on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route, Later, as the Allied forces advanced, it also flew personnel and cargo to Naples, Italy.
On 7 May 2002, EgyptAir Flight 843, a Boeing 737 from Cairo crashed 4 miles from Tunis–Carthage International Airport. 14 of the 62 people on board were killed.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.