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Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport lies on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast, serving the resort towns of Monastir and Sousse. It offers a single long, lit hard-surface runway with an ILS approach, and today handles mostly seasonal charter and scheduled traffic to European destinations, acting as a hub for Nouvelair.
Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport is a medium-sized international airport on Tunisia's eastern coast, primarily serving holiday traffic bound for Monastir, Sousse and the nearby resorts of Monastir-Skanes and Port El Kantaoui. It is named after Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's first president, who was born in Monastir, and today it acts as a hub for Nouvelair alongside scheduled and seasonal charter services from Tunisair and several European carriers. For a visiting VFR or IFR pilot it is a straightforward field to identify, with one long instrument runway and a full range of airport services.
The airport sits on the coast of the Monastir Governorate, close to the towns of Monastir and Sousse and the tourist strip running along Monastir-Skanes and Port El Kantaoui. As a designated international airport handling scheduled and charter airline traffic, it is served by approach and tower control, with traffic routed accordingly through the surrounding controlled airspace.
The airport has a single physical runway, 07/25, oriented east-west and measuring 9699 feet in length with a hard, lit surface. An ILS approach is available for runway 07. Field elevation is 7 feet above mean sea level.
Air traffic services are provided by Bourguiba APP on 119.3 MHz and Bourguiba TWR on 118.3 MHz, with Monastir ATIS broadcasting on 113.1 MHz. An ILS is available to runway 07 for instrument approaches.
During the Second World War the field was known as Monastir Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force, whose 81st Fighter Group flew P-39 Airacobras from the site between 26 May and 10 August 1943 as part of the North African Campaign. Civilian operations began in 1968 under the Office of Civil Aviation and Airports. In 2007 the Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority awarded management of the airport to TAV Airports Holding, with the concession running from 2008 to 2047. The airport takes its name from Habib Bourguiba, who was born in Monastir and became Tunisia's first president after independence.
The airport today functions as a major gateway for tourist traffic to the Monastir and Sousse coastal resorts, with Nouvelair operating it as a hub alongside Tunisair and a number of seasonal European charter and scheduled operators including Air Algerie, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Helvetic Airways, Luxair, Sundair and Transavia. Much of this traffic is concentrated within the tourist season. The single ILS-equipped runway and full instrument approach and tower service make it accessible to a wide range of aircraft types.
