Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport
Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba
مطار الحبيب بورقيبة الدولي
IATA: MIR – ICAO: DTMB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator TAV Airports Holding
Serves Monastir, Tunisia
Hub for Nouvelair
Elevation AMSL 9 ft / 3 m
Coordinates 35°45′29″N 010°45′17″E / 35.75806°N 10.75472°E / 35.75806; 10.75472
Website habibbourguibaairport.com
Map
MIR

Location of airport in Tunisia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 2,903 9,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2009)
Passengers 3,831,924

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport (French: Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba, AIMHB, Tunisian Arabic: مطار الحبيب بورقيبة الدولي‎) (IATA: MIR, ICAO: DTMB) is an airport serving Monastir 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 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 is mainly due to the movement of tourists coming to visit Monastir, Sousse and the surrounding resorts (Monastir-Skanes and Port El Kantaoui in particular). Almost all charter flights are concentrated during 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 was the first in the country in terms of traffic with 4,279,802 passengers in 2007.

Like all Tunisian airports, the airport is 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
Afriqiyah Airways Beida, Misrata, Tripoli[5]
Azur Air Seasonal charter: Kaliningrad, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don
Buraq Air Tripoli
Enter Air Seasonal: Katowice, Wrocław
Libyan Airlines Misrata
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal charter: Warsaw-Chopin
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Belgorod
Nouvelair Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Bologna, Bydgoszcz, Helsinki, Katowice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda, Wrocław
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service[6]		Seasonal: Prague[7]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam
Transavia FranceParis-Orly
Seasonal: Lyon, Nantes
Travel ServiceSeasonal charter: Prague
Travel Service SlovakiaSeasonal charter: Bratislava, Košice
Tunisair Brussels, Geneva, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris-Orly
Seasonal:Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Charter: Bordeaux, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Orly
XL Airways France Lille
Thomas Cook Airlines Charter: London-Gatwick, Manchester

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

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

  1. ↑ Airport information for DTMB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ↑ Airport information for MIR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ↑ Monastir – Habib Bourguiba International Airport at Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA)
  4. ↑ TAV: Monastir Airport will remain open and continue serving passengers
  5. ↑ "Afriqiyah Airways Adds Monastir Service from late-May 2014". Airline Route. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
  7. ↑ "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.

Bibliography

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