Tunis airport
| Tunis Airport مطار قرطاج الدولي |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | DTTA |
| IATA code | TO DO |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 7 m (23 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 8 km northeast of Tunis |
| Local transport | Bus lines 35 and 635, taxi |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1940 |
| operator | Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aéroports (OACA) |
| surface | 820 ha |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Passengers | 6,235,712 (2018) |
| Air freight | 24,617 t (2015) |
| Flight movements |
53,689 (2018) |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
5,000,000 |
| Runways | |
| 01/19 | 3194 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 11/29 | 2840 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Tunis-Carthage International Airport , officially Aéroport International de Tunis-Carthage , formerly El Aouina Airport is an international airport in Tunis , Tunisia .
The airport in the Tunisian capital has a capacity of 5,000,000 passengers per year. It is an aviation hub for the domestic airlines Tunisair , Tunisair Express , Nouvelair and Tunisavia .
The airport was named after Carthage , the ancient city and current suburb of Tunis.
Incidents
From 1943 to October 2017 there were 5 total losses of aircraft at Tunis Airport and its vicinity. 20 people were killed. Example:
- On May 7, 2002, occupied with 55 passengers and ten crew members made Boeing 737-500 of Egyptair to the air vehicle registration SU-GBI en route from Cairo to Tunis six kilometers outside the airport a crash landing. 11 of the 56 passengers and three of the six crew members died in the accident (see also Egyptair flight 843 ) .
See also
Web links
Commons : Tunis-Carthage International Airport - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Airport administration website (Arabic, English, French)
- Information (tunis-airport.com) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transport: Bus urbain. Retrieved April 12, 2019 (French).
- ↑ a b OACA: Statistiques du trafic aerien. Retrieved April 12, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Rapport d'Activité 2015. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved on April 12, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Accident statistics Tunis-Carthage Airport , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 10, 2017.
- ^ Accident report B-737 SU-GBI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 23, 2016.