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During [[World War II]], the airport was used by the [[United States Army Air Force]] [[Air Transport Command]] 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, It also flew personnel and cargo to [[Naples International Airport|Naples, Italy]]. |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Tunis, Tunisia | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°51′04″N 10°13′38″E / 36.85111°N 10.22722°E | ||||||||||||||
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Tunis-Carthage International Airport (Template:Lang-ar) (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. In 2007, it served 3,930,661 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.
Airlines and destinations
The following scheduled passenger airlines use Tunis-Carthage International Airport (as of 2009):
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Algérie | Algiers, Contanstine |
| Air Europa | Barcelona, Madrid |
| Air France | Lyons, Marseilles, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly |
| Air Malta | Malta |
| Alitalia | Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick |
| Buraq Air | Benghazi, Tripoli |
| Corsairfly | Paris-Orly |
| Egyptair | Cairo |
| Emirates | Dubai, Tripoli |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade (seasonal) |
| Jetairfly | Brussels |
| Karthago Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Libyan Airlines | Benghazi, Sebha, Tripoli |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Luxair | Luxembourg (seasonal) |
| Nouvelair | Monastir |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Medina |
| Sevenair | Malta, Palermo, Djerba, Gabès, Gafsa, Monastir, Tabarka, Tozeur |
| Syrian Arab Airlines | Damascus |
| 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, Lyons, Madrid, Marseilles, 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 |
World War II
During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force Air Transport Command 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, It also flew personnel and cargo to Naples, Italy.
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.