Tunisair

Tunisair (rear RTL الخطوطالتونسية) (Code AITA: YOU , Code ICAO: TAR ) is the national Airline company of the Tunisia. It is founded the October 21st 1948.

Its logo is a Gazelle stylized modified in 1990 to give him a more dynamic aspect and more purified. In 1998, year of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, the company aérenne had transported 50 million passengers. In 2004, the company transports a record of 3.624.577 passengers. Tunisair in addition holds 51% of the capital of the company Mauritania Airways created the December 18th 2006.

The April 6th 2007, it obtains certification ISO 9001, three years after to have taken down it first once in February 2004. The airline company had been made certify for the first time (ISO 9002) in October 2000.

Destinations

In regular lines, Tunisair serves, starting from Tunisia, the following cities:

Algiers, Cairo, Benghazi, Tripoli, Casablanca, Abidjan, Bamako, Nouakchott, Oran and Dakar
Beirut, Amman, Djeddah, Kuwait, Manama, Damas and Dubai
Vienna, Linz, Brussels, Prague, Copenhagen, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg , Toulouse, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Francfort-sur-le-Main, Hamburg, Munich, Athens, Budapest, Milan, Palermo, Rome, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Lisbon, Belgrade, Barcelona, Madrid, Stockholm, Geneva, Zurich, Istanbul and London

Incident

The August 20th 2005, 83 tourists embark of Geneva for a direct flight bound for Jerba. After one hour of flight, and whereas the plane is with 10.000 meters, an alarm resounds, the masks with Oxygène fall and Boeing 737-600 is very quickly put to lose altitude. During approximately 15 minutes, panic is amplified by the terrified voice of the commander launching of S.O.S, a microphone having remained open in the cockpit. With 3000 meters, the plane is stabilized finally.

A problem of pressurization is announced and the plane lands in urgency with Tunis where psychological doctors and await the passengers. Three hours later, they can set out again for Jerba.

Helmi Hassine, representative general of Tunisair for the Swiss , confirms the alarm which had with a depressurization of the cabin and declares that the crew applied to the letter the procedure recommended by Boeing. Since, the plane flies again after a control.

Since the foundation of the company, no accident is however to regret.

Float

Tunisair exploits a fleet of 30 apparatuses of an average age 11 years (April 2007):

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