Flights Tunisia – Libya and Tunisia – Algeria: punctuality, airlines and cancellations

When people think of flights from Tunis, Paris, Lyon or Frankfurt usually come to mind. Yet from October 2025 to September 2026, Tunis-Carthage's busiest route was Tunis – Tripoli Mitiga: 5,653 flights, ahead of Paris-Orly (5,217). With Benghazi and Misrata, Libya accounts for almost 8,700 flights a year, and Algeria for about 3,200. Here is what the data says about their punctuality.

Libya: six Libyan airlines with similar results

Airline	Flights (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)	On time (≤ 15 min)	3 hours late or more	Cancelled
Medsky Airways	1,178	67%	1.3%	1.4%
Buraq Air	2,166	63%	4.0%	2.6%
Libyan Wings	2,610	62%	3.6%	0.9%
Berniq Airways	1,705	60%	3.5%	6.3%
Libyan Airlines	685	50%	7.2%	35%
Afriqiyah Airways	321	37%	15%	9.7%

Flights between Tunisia and Libya are almost all operated by Libyan airlines. Four of them are close together, at around six flights out of ten on time, with Medsky Airways slightly ahead. Two points deserve attention:

• Cancellations. More than one in three Libyan Airlines flights listed in the OACA schedules was cancelled, including 74 of its 102 flights to Benghazi. Berniq Airways also cancels more often than average (6%).
• Very long delays. Afriqiyah Airways, which operates few flights, had 15% of its flights three hours late or more, mostly on Misrata.

Route	Flights	On time	Cancelled
Tunis – Tripoli Mitiga	5,653	63%	217
Tunis – Benghazi	2,231	61%	207
Tunis – Misrata	753	53%	52

On Tunis – Tripoli, four airlines share the route: Medsky Airways (69% on time), Buraq Air (63%), Libyan Wings (62%) and Libyan Airlines (50%). On Tunis – Benghazi, Buraq Air (62%) and Berniq Airways (60%) are level.

Algeria: Nouvelair and Air Algérie ahead

Airline	Flights	On time	3 hours late or more
Nouvelair	722	64%	2.5%
Air Algérie	1,645	59%	2.0%
Tunisair	827	30%	8.1%

Route	Airline	Flights	On time
Tunis – Algiers	Nouvelair	427	60%
	Air Algérie	1,447	58%
	Tunisair	567	26%
Tunis – Oran	Nouvelair	272	71%
	Tunisair	260	40%

Air Algérie operates most flights between Tunis and Algiers, with punctuality close to Nouvelair's. Tunisair is well behind: barely one flight in four on time between Tunis and Algiers, and almost one in ten three hours late or more. Cancellations are rare on Algeria (14 in a year).

Opposite seasons

Period	Libya flights on time	Algeria flights on time
October 2025 – March 2026	52%	60%
April – September 2026	69%	47%

The two markets move in opposite directions. Flights to Libya are much more punctual in summer, and almost all their cancellations happened in winter (406 from October to March, against 70 from April to September). Flights to Algeria, on the other hand, get worse in summer, when traffic grows (up to 378 flights in August against 174 in March), like all flights at Tunis-Carthage.

What it means for you

• To Tripoli, there is plenty of choice: if the timing suits you, Medsky Airways, Buraq Air and Libyan Wings have comparable results. Check your flight's status the day before on the Tunis-Carthage departures page, especially with an airline that cancels often.
• To Algiers or Oran in summer, allow a margin, and choose Nouvelair or Air Algérie if you can.
• To meet someone arriving from Libya or Algeria, follow the Tunis-Carthage arrivals live.

Method

The figures come from the schedules published by OACA for Tunis-Carthage, Djerba-Zarzis and Monastir airports, collected every 30 minutes by Tunisia Airports from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 (departures and arrivals). A flight is "on time" when it took off or landed at most 15 minutes late; for a departure, taxiing to the runway is included. Punctuality percentages only count flights that actually took off or landed; cancellations are those reported by OACA, as a share of all scheduled flights. Routes with fewer than 100 flights per airline are not detailed. Tunisia Airports is an independent website, not affiliated with OACA or with the airlines mentioned.