Tunis-Carthage International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Tunis-Carthage International Airport
nativename =
nativename-a = مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي
nativename-r =


image-width =
caption = Terminal 2 at Tunis-Carthage International Airport
IATA = TUN
ICAO = DTTA
type = Public
owner =
operator = Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority
city-served =
location = Tunis, Tunisia
elevation-f = 22
elevation-m = 7
coordinates = Coord|36|51|04|N|10|13|38|E|type:airport_region:TN
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metric-rwy =
r1-number = 01/19
r1-length-f = 10,499
r1-length-m = 3,200
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 11/29
r2-length-f = 9,318
r2-length-m = 2,840
r2-surface = Asphalt
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Tunis-Carthage International Airport ( _ar. مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي) airport codes|TUN|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.

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)
*Blue Line (Paris Charles De Gaulle)
*British Airways (London-Gatwick)
*Buraq Air (Benghazi, Tripoli)
*Clickair (Barcelona)
*Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
*EgyptAir (Cairo)
*Emirates (Dubai, Tripoli)
*Jat Airways (Belgrade)
*Jetairfly (Bruxelles)
*Libyan Airlines (Benghazi, Sebha, Tripoli)
*Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
*Luxair (Luxembourg)
*Nouvelair (Monastir)
*Qatar Airways (Doha) [http://www.elwatan.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=62796]
*Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
*Royal Jordanian (Amman)
*Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Medina)
*Sevenair (Malta, Palermo, Djerba, Gabès, Gafsa, Monastir, Tabarka, Tozeur ) [Formerly known asTUNINTER.]
*Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
*Tingair Maroc Jet (Tangier) [starts on February, 14 2009]
*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, )

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.

External links

*WAD|DTTA
* [http://www.oaca.nat.tn/index_eng.htm TUNISIAN CIVIL AVIATION AND AIRPORTS AUTHORITY (OACA)]

References