Tunis Carthage International Airport
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Airport HistoryEst. 1938
Tunisia's main airport traces back to a 1920 seaplane base on the Lake of Tunis and opened as Tunis Airfield in 1938, before the current airport was built with French funding from 1944 and became Tunisair's home base in 1948. Expanded repeatedly since, including a 1997 terminal enlargement and a dedicated charter terminal in 2006, it now handles roughly 7 million passengers a year and remains the headquarters of Tunisair, Tunisair Express and Nouvelair, even as Tunisia has developed Enfidha–Hammamet Airport as an alternative gateway for Mediterranean coastal tourism.
The first seaplane base in Tunisia is built on the Lake of Tunis for Compagnie Aéronavale operations, an early precursor to organized air travel in the country.
Tunis Airfield officially opens, initially handling modest traffic of around 5,800 passengers a year on routes linking Paris and Tunis.
During the North African campaign, the airport serves as a headquarters and command-control base for U.S. military operations supporting the Italian campaign.
Construction of the current Tunis-Carthage Airport, begun in 1944 with French funding, is completed enough for national carrier Tunisair to base its Douglas DC-3 operations there, flying to Marseille, Rome and Tripoli among other destinations.
The terminal is expanded to 57,448 square metres, raising capacity to around 4.4 million passengers a year.
A new charter-flight terminal opens on 23 September 2006, following a 2005 expansion that added roughly 500,000 passengers of capacity.
The airport continues to serve as headquarters for Tunisair, Tunisair Express, Nouvelair Tunisia and Tunisavia, handling approximately 7.25 million passengers annually.
General encyclopedic sources (Wikipedia and airport industry pages); passenger figures for recent years are approximate and can be affected by Tunisia's tourism-sector volatility, which is politically and economically sensitive.