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 (2024)
Passengers 1,634,374
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[citation needed]
Air Serbia	Seasonal charter: Belgrade,[citation needed] Niš[citation needed]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Vienna[5]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels[6]
Discover Airlines	Seasonal: Frankfurt,[7] Munich[citation needed]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Düsseldorf[8]
Helvetic Airways	Seasonal: Bern[9]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[10]
Neos	Seasonal: Bergamo,[citation needed] Bologna,[citation needed] Milan–Malpensa, [citation needed]Rome–Fiumicino,[citation needed] Verona[citation needed]
Nouvelair	Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf,[11] Frankfurt, Hannover, Lyon, Munich, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart Seasonal: Leipzig/Halle,[citation needed] Lille[citation needed] Seasonal charter: Lisbon,[12] Porto,[12] Saint Petersburg[13]
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Brno,[citation needed] Ostrava,[citation needed] Pardubice,[citation needed] Prague[citation needed]
Smartwings Poland[14]	Seasonal charter: Katowice,[citation needed] Warsaw–Chopin[citation needed]
Smartwings Hungary	Seasonal charter: Budapest[citation needed]
Sundair	Seasonal: Berlin,[15] Bremen[15]
TAP Air Portugal	Seasonal: Lisbon[citation needed]
Transavia	Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Marseille,[citation needed] 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.