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Nouvelair Limited Company (French: Nouvelair Société Anonyme, Arabic: الطيران الجديد تونس), trading as Nouvelair Tunisie, or simply Nouvelair, is a Tunisian airline with its registered office in Tunis, [2] while its head office in the Dhkila Tourist Zone in Monastir, [3] [4] near the Hôtel Sahara Beach. [5]
Tunis–Carthage International Airport, (French: Aéroport de Tunis-Carthage, Arabic: مطار تونس قرطاج الدولي, IATA: TUN, ICAO: DTTA) is the international airport of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. [5] It serves as the home base for Tunisair, Tunisair Express, Nouvelair Tunisia, and Tunisavia.
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 m 2 . The airport led the country in terms of traffic with 4,279,802 passengers in 2007.
Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Ceased operations Notes Fly International Airways : NVJ: 2002: 2002: Rebranded as Nouvelair International: Karthago Airlines: 5R
Tunis Air Douglas DC-4 at Paris (Orly) Airport in 1957. The carrier was formed by the government of Tunisia as Société Tunisienne de l'Air in late 1948. The initial investment was FRF 60 million, with shareholding split between the government (35%), Air France (35%) and another interests (30%). [5]
On 7 July 2007 (7/7/7), the airline was renamed "SevenAir" (Compagnie Aérienne Sevenair Tunisie, طيران السابع). SevenAir was owned by a relative of the wife of the then- President of Tunisia , Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali , and was renamed TunisAir Express following Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia on 14 January 2011. [ 1 ]
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter: 2 0 19 ... property of the company and Nouvelair whose management was entrusted to Tunisavia Total: 4 0 Helicopters.
The word Tunisia is derived from Tunis; a central urban hub and the capital of modern-day Tunisia.The present form of the name, with its Latinate suffix -ia, evolved from French Tunisie, [27] [28] in turn generally associated with the Berber root ⵜⵏⵙ, transcribed tns, which means "to lay down" or "encampment". [29]