Nouvelair Tunisie

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Nouvelair
الطيران الجديد تونس
Logo of the Nouvelair
Airbus A320-200 of Nouvelair
IATA code : BJ
ICAO code : LBT
Call sign : NOUVELAIR
Founding: 1989
Seat: Monastir , TunisiaTunisiaTunisia 
Home airport : Monastir airport
Company form: Société Anonyme
Management: Aziz Miled
Number of employees: 622
Sales: TND 280 million (2005)
Passenger volume: 1.8 million (2009)
Fleet size: 11
Aims: National and international
Website: www.nouvelair.com

Nouvelair Tunisie ( Arabic الطيران الجديد تونس, Nouvelair for short , originally Air Liberté Tunisie ) is a Tunisian airline based in Monastir and based at Monastir Airport .

history

Nouvelair was founded in October 1989 as a subsidiary of the French Air Liberté and operated as Air Liberté Tunisie until 1996. On March 21, 1990, flight operations began with a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 taken over by the parent company, and in 1997 two more machines of this type were procured. In 1998 the conversion to the aircraft types of the Airbus A320 family began , of which eleven are currently in use. The two remaining MD-83s leased from GECAS were retired at the beginning of 2007. In 2002 the 1 million passenger limit was reached.

For aircraft rentals, etc. a. to Libyan Airlines , and a planned scheduled flight operation within the Maghreb states was founded in 2002, Nouvelair International Airways, which was later renamed Fly International Airways ; In 2005, however, this stopped operating again.

In 2010, Nouvelair aircraft completed 46,707 flight hours.

Destinations

Nouvelair offers flights within Tunisia and to Europe . In the German-speaking countries Hanover, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Düsseldorf and a few more are served.

fleet

Airbus A320-212 of Nouvelair

As of April 2020, the Nouvelair fleet consists of eleven aircraft with an average age of 14.7 years:

Aircraft type active inactive Remarks Seats
Airbus A320-200 11 136
177
180
total 11 -

See also

Web links

Commons : Nouvelair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. nouvelair.com - Destinations (French), accessed on March 23, 2017
  2. ^ Nouvelair Tunisie Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .