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Tunisia's Soaring Connectivity to Europe

Tunisia's Soaring Connectivity to Europe: A Record-Breaking Summer

Tunisia has more capacity to Europe than any other African country, after Morocco and Egypt, . It will offer a record 3.54 million departing seats between April and October, according to Cirium data, a 14.6% rise over 2019. In the past two decades, this is only the fourth time that Tunisian capacity has exceeded three million seats — showing strong recovery from the global pandemic among other things.

Highlights of Tunisia's Soaring Connectivity to Europe:

Record Capacity: Highest ever for Tunisia with 3.54 million departing seats.
Strong Growth: Up by 14.6% on 2019.
Resilient Recovery: Overcoming the impacts of theglobal pandemic etc.

However, development has been held back by delays to an eagerly anticipated EU open skies agreement – much like Morocco, increased foreign (Ultra)LCC presence would benefit Tunisia to stimulate tourism and VFR traffic. Nevertheless, significant growth has been recorded by Nouvelair – a leisure operator based in Tunisia.

A Record Summer with Many New European Routes:

Over 30 new routes have been launched this summer – all are brand-new or not operated within the last decade by stated carriers; All are 2-weekly, except those with an *, which are weekly, and **, which are 3-weekly:

14 March: Nouvelair, Tunis-Basel (Switzerland)
27 March: easyJet, Bristol-Enfidha
31 May: Eurowings, Stuttgart-Monastir*
31 May: TUI fly Deutschland, Stuttgart-Djerba*
3 April: Nouvelair, Tunis-Berlin
5 April: Eurowings, Dusseldorf-Monastir
7 April: Nouvelair, Tunis-Bordeaux
19 April: Nouvelair, Sfax-Paris CDG
3 May: Eurowings Discover, Frankfurt-Monastir
6 May: Bulgaria Air, Sofia-Djerba*
26 May: Nouvelair, Tunis-Munich
1 June: Nouvelair, Djerba-Poznan*
1 June: Nouvelair, Sfax-Istanbul IST
12 June: Neos, Milan MXP-Djerba
12 June: Neos, Verona-Djerba*
12 June: Nouvelair, Monastir-Lublin/Katowice*
19 June: Neos, Bologna-Djerba/Monastir*
19 June: Neos, Rome FCO-Djerba/Monastir*
28 June: Nouvelair, Monastir-Bratislava*
19 June: Nouvelair, Tunis-Stockholm ARN*
2 July: Brussels Airlines, Brussels-Monastir
4 July: Eurowings, Hamburg-Tunis*
7 July: Nouvelair, Monastir-Banja Luka*
17 July: Nouvelair, Tunis-Milan MXP
10 September: Nouvelair, Tunis-Frankfurt**
11 September: Nouvelair, Tunis-Copenhagen*
14 September: Nouvelair, Tunis-St Petersburg
17 September: Nouvelair, Tunis-Bologna
29 October: easyJet, Basel-Enfidha
30 October: easyJet, London LTN-Enfidha**
30 October: Transavia France, Paris ORY-Tozeur

This year has seen a tremendous increase in the number of flights between Tunisia and Europe, with new routes being added at an unprecedented rate. Six airports in Tunisia now have direct flights from European cities, including Tozeur which will receive its first European flight since Tunisair stopped flying there last year when Transavia France starts serving Paris Orly on 30 October.

These developments demonstrate that Tunisia is serious about growing its tourism industry and aviation sector – an exciting future awaits for travellers and the country’s economy.

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