Tunis-Carthage International Airport
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| Tunis-Carthage International Airport | |||
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| IATA: TUN - ICAO: DTTA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Tunisian Civil Aviation & Airports Authority | ||
| Serves | Tunis | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft (7 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 01/19 | 10,499 | 3,200 | Asphalt |
| 11/29 | 9,318 | 2,840 | Asphalt |
Tunis-Carthage International Airport (Arabic: مطار قرطاج الدولي) (IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport serving Tunis, Tunisia.
It is the base of operations for Tunisair, Nouvelair Tunisia, Tuninter and Tunisavia.
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.
The airport is named for the historic city of Carthage, located just north of the airport.
In 2004, the airport served approximately 3.4 million passengers.
[edit] 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)
- British Airways
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai, Tripoli)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Libyan Airways (Benghazi, Tripoli)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Nouvelair (Monastir)
- Qatar Airways (Doha) [1]
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn)
- Tuninter (Malta)
- Tunisair (Abidjan, Algiers, Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Bamako, Barcelona, Beirut, Belgrade, Benghazi, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Nouakchott, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tripoli, Vienna, Warsaw [resums April, 2007], Zurich)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
[edit] External link
- World Aero Data airport information for DTTA
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