Paris – Tunisia: which airline is the most punctual?

Four airlines carry most of the traffic between Paris and Tunisia: Transavia, Nouvelair, Tunisair and Air France. Fares are easy to compare; punctuality is not. So we went through the 10,339 flights operated between the Paris airports (Charles de Gaulle and Orly) and Tunis-Carthage, Djerba-Zarzis and Monastir from 1 April to 30 September 2026, and compared each flight's scheduled time with its actual time.

Overall ranking

Airline	Flights (Apr–Sep 2026)	On time (≤ 15 min)	Average delay when late	Delays over one hour	Cancelled
Transavia	3,943	71%	43 min	6%	7
Nouvelair	2,734	65%	52 min	9%	0
Air France	1,464	48%	42 min	8%	16
Tunisair	2,198	40%	72 min	23%	25

Over six months, Transavia is the most reliable: seven flights out of ten took off or landed less than a quarter of an hour late. Nouvelair is close behind and did not cancel a single flight on these routes. Tunisair comes last: fewer than one flight in two was on time, and almost one in four was more than an hour late.

Air France is a special case: its arrivals in Tunisia are reasonably punctual (62% on time), but only 34% of its departures from Tunis are. When its flights are late, though, they are only slightly late (42 minutes on average, the lowest of the four).

Route by route: the answer depends on the airport

The overall ranking hides real differences between routes.

Route	Airline	Flights	On time	Average delay when late
Tunis – Orly	Transavia	1,541	76%	41 min
	Tunisair	1,186	26%	70 min
Tunis – Charles de Gaulle	Nouvelair	1,025	51%	49 min
	Air France	1,463	48%	42 min
	Tunisair (summer)	148	5%	90 min
Djerba – Charles de Gaulle	Nouvelair	1,064	81%	54 min
Djerba – Orly	Tunisair	673	70%	69 min
	Transavia	1,419	66%	44 min
Monastir – Orly	Transavia	983	70%	45 min
	Tunisair	176	54%	60 min
Monastir – Charles de Gaulle	Nouvelair	645	66%	57 min

Key points:

• To and from Tunis, the gap is widest on Orly: Transavia (76%) against Tunisair (26%) on the very same route.
• Between Tunis and Charles de Gaulle, Nouvelair and Air France are neck and neck, with about one flight in two on time. Tunisair's summer flights to Roissy (TU724 and TU725, July to September) were very often late, by 80 minutes on average.
• In Djerba things are much better: Nouvelair reaches 81% to Charles de Gaulle, and Tunisair beats Transavia to Orly (70% against 66%), even if its delays, when they happen, are longer.
• In Monastir, Transavia is the safe choice for Orly.

Why is Tunis less punctual than Djerba?

Tunis-Carthage alone handles more than half of the flights at the country's three main airports, with strong peaks in the morning and late afternoon. Over the same period, the punctuality of all its flights was around 55%, against more than 70% in Djerba. An aircraft flying several rotations a day also builds up delay: an evening flight is more likely to be late than a morning one.

What it means for you

• If you have a connection in Paris (a train or another flight), choose the most punctual airline on your route and keep at least three hours of margin.
• If you are picking someone up, don't rely on the time on the ticket: check the live flight status on the Tunis-Carthage arrivals page before you leave.
• Before booking, each route page (for example Tunis – Orly) shows the recent punctuality of every airline, updated automatically.

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 April to 30 September 2026 (departures and arrivals). A flight is "on time" when it took off or landed at most 15 minutes late. The published times are take-off and landing times: for a departure, taxiing to the runway is included, which makes departures look slightly later than in airline statistics, which measure leaving the gate. The comparison between airlines remains fair, as all of them are measured the same way. Only flights that actually took off or landed are counted; routes with fewer than 100 flights over the period are not detailed. Tunisia Airports is an independent website, not affiliated with OACA or with the airlines mentioned.