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 former president Habib Bourguiba, who was born in Monastir.

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
Website	habibbourguibaairport.com
Map
MIR Location of airport in Tunisia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 2,903 9,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 1,560,000
Source: List of the busiest airports in Africa, DAFIF[1][2]

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

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Monastir Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Serbia	Seasonal charter: Belgrade, Niš
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Vienna[5]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels[6]
Discover Airlines	Seasonal: Frankfurt,[7] Munich
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf[8]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[9]
Neos	Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Nouvelair	Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf,[10] Frankfurt, Hannover, Lyon, Munich, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart Seasonal: Leipzig/Halle, Lille Seasonal charter: Lisbon,[11] Porto[11]
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Brno,[12] Ostrava,[12] Pardubice, Prague
Smartwings Poland[13]	Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin
Smartwings Hungary	Seasonal charter: Budapest
Sundair	Seasonal: Berlin,[14] Bremen[14]
TAP Air Portugal	Seasonal: Lisbon
Transavia	Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Marseille,[15] Nice[16]
Tunisair	Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Paris–Orly

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

1. "Airport information for DTMB". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: 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". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
5. "Austrian Airlines adds charters from Vienna to Monastir". aviation.direct (in German). 11 November 2022.
6. "BRUSSELS AIRLINES NS23 SHORT-HAUL NETWORK ADDITIONS".
7. "Eurowings Discover adds further two new routes to summer 2023 schedule". 21 December 2022.
8. "Eurowings adds Monastir - Düsseldorf" (in German). 8 March 2023.
9. Liu, Jim. "Luxair resumes Tunisia service in 1H21". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
10. "Nouvelair Tunisie adds German routes from Monastir in W17".
11. "Solférias, Sonhando e Viajar Tours já vendem charters para a Páscoa e o Verão em Djerba". 24 October 2023.
12. "Brno Airport, Brno - Turany internation airport - Brno - Czech Republic". www.brno-airport.cz.
13. "Tunisia Hammamet". itaka.pl.
14. "Sundair starts new routes in Summer 2023" (in German). 31 January 2023.
15. "Book a flight". Transavia.
16. "La compagnie Transavia ouvre une nouvelle ligne en vol direct à l'aéroport de Nice". 15 February 2022.

Bibliography

• Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
• Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

External links

• Tunisia Monastir International Airport – official site
• Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA)
• Current weather for DTMB at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MIR at Aviation Safety Network