Tunisair Express

From its founding in 1990 until 2000, Tunisair Express was known as Tuninter, and bore the Arabic name "Domestic Airline" (الخطوط الداخلية). Initially limited to domestic routes, Tuninter obtained permission to begin international operations in 2000. On 7 July 2007 (7/7/7), the airline was renamed "SevenAir" (Compagnie Aérienne Sevenair Tunisie, طيران السابع). SevenAir was owned by a relative of the wife of the then-President of Tunisia, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and was renamed TunisAir Express following Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia on 14 January 2011.^[1] Tunisair Express transported a total of six million passengers between 1992 and 2008, carrying 300,000 passengers in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2015, it was announced that Tunisair Express would be merged into Tunisair in the foreseeable future to achieve a better profitability.^[2]

Montacer Bnouni was appointed as Director General of Tunisair Express in June 2024.^[3]

As of November 2024^[update], Tunisair Express operates scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:^[4]

As of November 2024^[update], the Tunisair Express fleet consists of the following aircraft:^[5]

• 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153; while on a flight from the Italian city of Bari to the island of Djerba in Tunisia, a Tuninter ATR 72 suffered fuel exhaustion and was forced to make an emergency landing into the Mediterranean Sea, 18 miles off Palermo, Sicily. The aircraft was carrying 39 passengers and crew, 16 of whom died. Officials at Bari airport reported that most of the passengers were Italian tourists. The aircraft had recently been fitted with an incorrect fuel indicator designed to be fitted only in a smaller version of this plane: the ATR 42. Therefore, the crew were unable to detect that the aircraft was running low on fuel. The airline was banned from flying into Italy for almost two years.^[6]