Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport

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Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport

Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba

مطار الحبيب بورقيبة الدولي
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorTAV Airports Holding
ServesMonastir, Tunisia
Hub forNouvelair
Elevation AMSL9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates35°45′29″N 010°45′17″E / 35.75806°N 10.75472°E / 35.75806; 10.75472
Websitehabibbourguibaairport.com
Map
MIR is located in Tunisia
MIR
MIR
Location of airport in Tunisia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 2,903 9,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers1,560,000

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport (French: Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba, AIMHB, Arabic: مطار الحبيب بورقيبة الدولي) (IATA: MIR, ICAO: DTMB) is an airport serving Monastir and Sousse areas in Tunisia.[3] The Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) awarded the management of the airport to TAV Airports Holding in March 2007.[4] The airport is named after the former president Habib Bourguiba, who was born in Monastir.

History

During World War II, the airport was known as Monastir Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force 81st Fighter Group during the North African Campaign. The 81st flew P-39 Airacobras from the airfield between 26 May and 10 August 1943.

Overview

The airport activity mainly serves tourists coming to visit Monastir, Sousse and the surrounding resorts (Monastir-Skanes and Port El Kantaoui in particular). Almost all charter flights are concentrated within the tourist season. The main airlines operating currently at the airport are Nouvelair and Tunisair. With a capacity of 3.5 million passengers per year, the terminal covers 28,000 m2. The airport led the country in terms of traffic with 4,279,802 passengers in 2007.

Like all Tunisian airports, the airport was originally managed by the Office of Civil Aviation and Airports (OACA). However, in January 2008, it came under the management of the Turkish consortium TAV Airports Holding for a period of 40 years, under the concession.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Brussels Airlines Seasonal charter: Brussels[5]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg[6]
HiSky Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Cluj–Napoca[7]
Libyan Airlines Tripoli–Mitiga[8]
Luxair Luxembourg[9]
Neos Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Nouvelair Düsseldorf,[10] Hannover, Lyon, Moscow–Vnukovo,[11] Munich, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Belgrade, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Lille, Nantes, Stuttgart, Vienna
Seasonal charter: Prague
Smartwings Seasonal charter: Brno,[12] Ostrava,[12] Pardubice, Prague
Smartwings Hungary Seasonal charter: Budapest
Smartwings Slovakia Seasonal charter: Bratislava, Košice[13]
Smartwings Poland Seasonal charter: Katowice
TAP Air Portugal Seasonal: Lisbon
Transavia Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Marseille,[14] Nice[15]
Tunisair Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Düsseldorf

Access

The airport is served by trains on the electrified, metre-gauge Sahel Metro line and between Sousse and Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir.

References

Citations

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

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