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This is a list of destinations that Tunisair flies to. This list does not include charter-only destinations. This list does not include charter-only destinations. [ 1 ]
Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Ceased operations Notes Fly International Airways : NVJ: 2002: 2002: Rebranded as Nouvelair International: Karthago Airlines: 5R
Tunis Air Douglas DC-4 at Paris (Orly) Airport in 1957. The carrier was formed by the government of Tunisia as Société Tunisienne de l'Air in late 1948. The initial investment was FRF 60 million, with shareholding split between the government (35%), Air France (35%) and another interests (30%). [5]
Almost all charter flights are concentrated within the tourist season. The main airlines operating currently at the airport are Nouvelair and Tunisair. With a capacity of 3.5 million passengers per year, the terminal covers 28,000 m 2. The airport led the country in terms of traffic with 4,279,802 passengers in 2007.
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 .
From its founding in 1990 until 2000, Tunisair Express was known in French as Tuninter, and bore the Arabic name "Domestic Airline" (الخطوط الداخلية). Initially limited to domestic routes (it is still the only airline to fly internally within Tunisia), Tuninter, as it was then known, obtained permission to begin international ...
Construction began in 2007 and the airport opened on 1 December 2009 with the first flight on 4 December 2009. The total building costs were given as 436 million euros.. It was originally named after the former Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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