Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport

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.

Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport

Aéroport International de Monastir–Habib Bourguiba

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

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 Serbia Belgrade
Brussels Airlines Seasonal charter: Brussels[5]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg[6]
HiSky Seasonal charter: Cluj–Napoca[7]
Libyan Airlines Tripoli–Mitiga[8]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[9]
Nordwind Airlines[10] Seasonal charter: Arkhangelsk, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Kaluga,[10] Kazan, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Ufa, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg
Nouvelair Düsseldorf,[11] Hannover, Lyon, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Belgrade, Berlin, Frankfurt, Lille, Nantes
Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[12] Stockholm-Arlanda,[13] Yerevan
SkyUp Seasonal charter: Kyiv–Boryspil[14]
Smartwings Seasonal charter: Brno,[15] Ostrava[15]
Smartwings Slovakia Seasonal charter: Bratislava, Košice[16]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly
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

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

  1. "Airport information for DTMB". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) 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 Archived 13 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine at Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA) Archived 25 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. TAV: Monastir Airport will remain open and continue serving passengers
  5. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/279596/brussels-airlines-plans-monastir-service-in-w18/
  6. Liu, Jim. "Eurowings adds new Tunisia service from Hamburg in 2Q19". Routesonline. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  7. "HiSky will operate charter flights for Amara Tour from for airports in the country". boardingpass.ro. 23 February 2021.
  8. "LN332 schedule. (Libyan Airlines flight: Tripoli -> Monastir)". info.flightmapper.net.
  9. Liu, Jim. "Luxair resumes Tunisia service in 1H21". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  10. "Flight Search". pegasys.pegast.ru.
  11. 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Nouvelair Tunisie adds German routes from Monastir in W17".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. "Resa till Tunisien │Tunisien-resor.se".
  13. "Resa till Tunisien │Tunisien-resor.se".
  14. "freight monitor". online.joinup.ua. 9 July 2018.
  15. a.s., Letiště Brno. "Brno Airport, Brno - Turany internation airport - Brno - Czech Republic". www.brno-airport.cz.
  16. "Letový poriadok | Letisko Košice".

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