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Tunis - Carthage International Airport
Tunis - Carthage International Airport; Aéroport international de Tunis-Carthage; مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي
	Terminal 2
IATA: TUN – ICAO: DTTA
Summary
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
Runways
	Source: DAFIF

Tunis-Carthage International Airport

Location of Tunis-Carthage International Airport, Tunisia

Tunis - Carthage International Airport (French: Aéroport international 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, 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.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following scheduled passenger airlines use Tunis-Carthage International Airport (as of October 2009):

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Berlin	Cologne/Bonn
Air Europa	Barcelona, Madrid
Air France	Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta	Malta
Air Méditerranée	Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One	Milan-Malpensa
British Airways	London-Gatwick
Buraq Air	Benghazi, Tripoli
Corsairfly	Paris-Orly
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates Airline	Dubai, Tripoli
Jat Airways	Belgrade [seasonal]
Jetairfly	Brussels
Karthago Airlines	Copenhagen, Moscow-Domodedovo, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tripoli
Libyan Airlines	Benghazi, Tripoli
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Luxair	Luxembourg [seasonal]
Nayzak Air Transport	Benghazi, Tripoli
Nouvelair	Monastir
Qatar Airways	Doha
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Royal Jordanian	Amman
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah, Medina
Sevenair	Djerba, Gabès, Gafsa, Malta, Monastir, Tabarka, Tozeur, Tripoli
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, 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

[edit] World War II

Air Transport Command Routes

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 wee assigned:^[4]

HQ, 87th Fighter Group, 22 Nov-14 Dec 1943
3d Reconnaissance Group, 13 Jun-8 Dec 1943, F-4/F-5 Lightning
5th Reconnaissance Group, 8 Sep-8 Dec 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Airport information for DTTA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
^ Airport information for TUN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
^ Tunis - Carthage International Airport at Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA)
^ Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

[edit] External links

[WAD-0] Airport information for DTTA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.

[GCM-1] Airport information for TUN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).

[2] Tunis - Carthage International Airport at Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA)

[3] Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

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