Recently, Tunisian airports are increasingly visited by travelers from all over the world. And this, perhaps, is not surprising. Unusual nature, magnificent beaches and stunning architecture of the country always arouse great interest, annually attracting here not even hundreds, but thousands of tourists.
Section 1. Monastir, "Khabib Bourguiba"
Currently, Habib Bourguiba is the main charter airport in Tunisia, also the main hub of Novel Air and a subsidiary of Tunis Air.
It is located in a very convenient location from the point of view of travelers - 3 km from the city of Monastir. The rest of Tunisia's airports can really only envy this location.
These air gates of the state are named after Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia. The opening of the airport took place in 1968. The main focus is tourism.
In general, at the moment it receives aircraft from about 200 European and 20 African destinations.
It should be noted that an average of 3,500,000 passengers a year pass through the airport. By the way, the record passenger traffic (4,279,802 people) was recorded in2007.
Now the total area of the airport is 199.5 hectares, the area of the terminal is 28,000 square meters. m.
Like all international airports in Tunisia, "Habib Bourguiba" is small in size, but at the same time it is quite convenient, because the arrivals area is located on the 1st floor of the terminal, where there are shops, a terminal for buying local sim -cards, luggage wrapping terminal, cafe. The departure area and Duty Free shops are located on the 2nd floor.
Section 2. "Tunisia-Carthage"
A story about Tunisian airports would be incomplete without mentioning this main hub of Tunis Air, which is also a subsidiary for such companies as British Airways, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Alitalia, Air France.
The airport was built in 1940, 8 km from the capital of Tunisia and named after the city of Carthage. Until 1940, there was a small, one might even say tiny, Tunis-El Aounia airport on this site, which, perhaps, was known only for the fact that Antoine Saint-Exupery landed here.
By the way, a copy of the writer's plane is currently installed before entering it. The old airport began to carry out small international traffic, starting in 1920. So, in 1938, between France and Tunisia, the passenger traffic amounted to 5,800 people.
The new airport has been receiving international flights since 1944. He was assigned the classification A, necessary for such transportation. According to the agreements in force at that time, France assumed all the costs. Air Francebecomes the main carrier and in 1951 she carried 56,400 passengers. Later, through the Tunis-Carthage airport, transit flights began to be made to South Africa, the countries of the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East.
In 1972, the airport was completely rebuilt, its area increased to 820 hectares. Practically today, in 1997, a terminal with an area of 57,448 sq. m, and in 2006 they built a second terminal with an area of 5,500 sq. m.
Currently, 4.4 million people a year pass through the airport (36% of all traffic in Tunisia). For aircraft parking, it has 5 mobile and 55 stationary hangars. In addition, the airport has an extensive network of cargo hangars used for cargo transportation.
Section 3. "Djerba-Zarzis"
This airport is a subsidiary hub of Tunis Air. It is located 9 km from the city of Humk Souk (the capital of the island of Djerba) and is undoubtedly one of the largest airports in the southeast of the state.
It was built in 1970 to attract tourists to the southern part of Tunisia.
Tunisia's airports on the map of the country are perfectly visible, and the load on them only increases from year to year. For example, the annual passenger traffic of Djerba-Zarzis is 4,000,000 people. The total area of the airport is 295 hectares, one of the terminals has an area of 73,000 square meters. m, another terminal, opened in December 2007, - 57,000 sq. m.
It should be noted that this airport is an important transport link. Why? The thing is that the way from Monastir and Tunisia to Djerba by car is quite long, in addition, it includes a segment of the way by ferry. During the summer, up to 5 flights daily from other airports in Tunisia to Djerba Airport.
