Tunis–Carthage International Airport

Tunis–Carthage Airport Aéroport international de Tunis-Carthage مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي
IATA: TUN ICAO: DTTA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority
Location	Tunis, Tunisia
Hub for	Syphax Airlines Tunisair Tunisair Express Nouvelair
Elevation AMSL	22 ft / 7 m
Map
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 (2014)
Passengers 5,146,000
Source: DAFIF

Tunis–Carthage Airport (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-aeb, 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:

• HQ, 87th Fighter Group, 22 November – 14 December 1943
• 3d Reconnaissance Group, 13 June – 8 December 1943, F-4/F-5 Lightning
• 5th Reconnaissance Group, 8 September – 8 December 1943, F-4/F-5 Lightning

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.

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. Several other French airlines presently serve the airport, 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. The passenger traffic has grown steadily since 1951 when 56,400 passengers were carried, 33,400 of them by Air France. In 1997 the airport terminal was expanded to Template:Unit area; 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 Template:Unit area, and now has a capacity of 500,000 more passengers annually. On 23 September 2006 a new terminal opened for charter flights.

Airlines and destinations

Aerial view

Departure gate area

Apron view

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Afriqiyah Airways	Beida
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Marseille
Air Méditerranée	Seasonal: Marseille
Alitalia	Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Buraq Air	Tripoli
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Dubai-International
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn
Libyan Airlines	Beida, Tobruk
Lufthansa	Frankfurt Seasonal: Munich
Mauritania Airlines	Nouakchott
Nouvelair	Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia
Saudia	Jeddah, Medina
Syphax Airlines	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Transavia France	Lyon, Paris-Orly
Tunisair	Abidjan, Algiers, Amsterdam, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Belgrade, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Dakar, Dubai-International, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Khartoum(Begins January 2016), Lisbon-Portela, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Medina, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nantes, Nice, Nouakchott, Oran, Ouagadougou, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Zürich Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Bucharest, Hamburg
Tunisair Express	Djerba, Gabès, Gafsa, Malta, Naples, Sfax, Toulon, Tozeur
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona
XL Airways France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Air France Cargo	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Emirates SkyCargo	Dubai-Al Maktoum
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Istanbul-Atatürk
TNT Airways	Liège

Other facilities

The Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) has its head office 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 miles 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

• List of the busiest airports in Africa by passenger traffic
• List of airports in Tunisia

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

External links

Media related to Tunis-Carthage International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA)
• Accident history for TUN at Aviation Safety Network
• Aeronautical chart and airport information for DTTA at SkyVector
• Current weather for DTTA at NOAA/NWS