<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History</h2>
<p class="blog-para">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.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Overview</h2>
<p class="blog-para">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</p>
<p class="blog-para">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.</p>
<p class="blog-para">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.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Access</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is served by trains on the electrified, metre-gauge Sahel Metro line and between Sousse and Gare Habib Bourguiba Monastir.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport was built in the year 2004. The IATA code for the airport is MIR. Cleartrip provides information about the different airline brands that operate from Monastir airport and also a list of top domestic and international routes from Monastir.</p>
<p class="blog-para">There are different domestic and international airlines that operate from Monastir airport. Out of them, the airline brands that operate more frequently are Tunisair, Nouvelair, translation missing: en.airlines.NO and President Airlines. In addition to this, the most popular sectors from Monastir are Monastir to Paris, Monastir to Lyon with 88, 25 weekly flights respectively.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Tunisair airline 3114 to Paris is the first flight that departs from Monastir airport at 12:15 AM, followed by Tunisair airline 3218 to Paris at 12:40 AM. Whereas Tunisair airline 3230 to Paris is the last flight that departs from Monastir airport at 11:50 PM.</p>
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