Nouvelair Explained

Airline:	Nouvelair
Fleet Size:	13 (2023)
Destinations:	25
Iata:	BJ
Icao:	LBT
Callsign:	NOUVELAIR
Founded:	(as Air Liberté Tunisie)
Headquarters:	Monastir, Tunisia
Key People:	Chokri Zarrad (CEO)
Frequent Flyer:	jasmin^[1]

Nouvelair Limited Company (French: Nouvelair Société Anonyme, Arabic: الطيران الجديد تونس), trading as Nouvelair Tunisie, or simply Nouvelair, is a Tunisian airline with its registered office in Tunis,^[2] while its head office in the Dhkila Tourist Zone in Monastir,^{[3] [4]} near the Hôtel Sahara Beach.^[5] The airline operates tourist charters from European cities to Tunisian holiday resorts. Its main bases are Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport, Tunis–Carthage International Airport and Djerba–Zarzis International Airport.^[6]

History

The airline was established in 1989 as Air Liberté Tunisie and started operations on 21 March 1990. It was founded as a charter affiliate of French operator Air Liberté. It is majority owned by Aziz Miled (who died in 2012) and has 614 employees (at March 2007).^[6]

Corporate affairs

Ownership and management

The airline is privately owned. Current shareholders are (July 2014) Tunisian Travel Service (TTS) (55%), Sofiat (20%), Carte (15%) and Marhaba Hotels (10%).^[7] The CEO is Chokri Zarrad.

Business trends

Full annual reports do not appear to be published. In the absence of these, available information on trends is shown below (for years ending 31 December):

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Turnover (TND m)											391
Net profit (TND m)
Number of employees							617	615	616	614	520	568
Number of passengers (m)	1.78	1.81	1.48	1.65	1.01	1.24	1.20	1.34	0.71	0.57	0.92	0.65
Passenger load factor (%)											81.3	80
Number of aircraft (at year end)	14	14	15	17	13	12	11	11	10	9	8	10
Notes/sources							^[8]	^[9]	^[10]	^[11]	^[12] ^[13]	^[14]

Fleet

, Nouvelair operates the following aircraft:^[15]

Nouvelair fleet

Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers	Notes
Airbus A320-200	11	-	177
			180
Total	11	-

External links

• Official website
• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: jasmin. nouvelair.com.
2. "Credits and legal information ." Nouvelair. Retrieved on 17 February 2011. "Registered Office : 14 rue Habib Chrita, Cité des Jardins B.P 1005, Tunis – Tunisia"
3. "Complaints, Suggestions ." Nouvelair. Retrieved on 17 February 2011. "Address : Zone Touristique Dkhila – 5065 – Monastir – Tunisie"
4. "After your flight ." Nouvelair. Retrieved on 17 February 2011. "NOUVELAIR Customer service Zone touristique DKHILA 5065 Monastir TUNISIA"
5. Jacobs, Daniel and Peter Morris. The Rough Guide to Tunisia. Rough Guides, 2001. 215. Retrieved from Google Books on 1 July 2010., .
6. News: Directory: World Airlines . . 57 . 2007-04-10.
7. Web site: Nouvelair - Tunisia (Current). July 2014. FlightSafe Consultants Limited. 16 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170925082136/http://www.flightsafe.co.uk/rhapsody/lbt.html. 25 September 2017. dead.
8. Web site: Nouvelair/Quick Facts. Arab Air Carriers' Organization . 21 December 2015.
9. Web site: Key figures . Nouvelair . 21 December 2015.
10. Web site: Nouvelair/Quick Facts. Arab Air Carriers' Organization . 16 July 2017.
11. Web site: AFRAA Annual Report 2017. AFRAA. 2017. 2020-02-23. 2019-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023117/https://afraa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AFRAA-Annual-Report-2017-1.pdf. dead.
12. Web site: AFRAA Annual Report 2018. AFRAA. 2018.
13. Web site: Open sky: Nouvelair prepares its offensive (translated) . Jeune Afrique . 24 October 2018. 21 October 2019.
14. Web site: AFRAA Annual Report 2019. AFRAA. 2019.
15. Web site: Fleet. nouvelair.com.