Flying to Tunisia in winter: which routes continue and which stop?

Many routes to Tunisia only fly in summer. To find out which ones continue in winter, we compared last winter (November 2025 to March 2026) with the following summer (June to August 2026) for every international flight at Tunis-Carthage, Djerba-Zarzis and Monastir. Frequencies are given in return flights per week, averaged over each period.

Three airports, three very different winters

Airport	Routes in summer	Routes in winter	Return flights / week in summer	In winter	Drop
Tunis-Carthage	57	53	640	498	−22%
Djerba-Zarzis	46	18	253	78	−69%
Monastir	58	12	245	51	−79%

A route is counted if it has at least one return flight per week on average.

Tunis-Carthage lives mostly on business travel, the diaspora and connections: it loses one flight in five in winter, but almost no destinations. Djerba and Monastir depend on beach tourism: most charter flights stop at the end of October and only return in spring.

Tunis-Carthage: almost everything continues

No major route from Tunis is summer-only. These are the busiest in winter:

Route	Return flights / week in winter	In summer	Main airlines
Tunis – Tripoli Mitiga	50	58	Libyan Wings, Buraq Air, Medsky Airways
Tunis – Paris-Orly	46	51	Transavia, Tunisair
Tunis – Istanbul	32	37	Turkish Airlines, Tunisair, Nouvelair
Tunis – Paris-CDG	32	56	Air France, Nouvelair, Tunisair
Tunis – Marseille	22	30	Tunisair, Nouvelair, Transavia
Tunis – Algiers	21	25	Air Algérie, Tunisair, Nouvelair
Tunis – Casablanca	21	24	Royal Air Maroc, Tunisair, Nouvelair
Tunis – Benghazi	21	22	Libyan airlines
Tunis – Jeddah	19	10	Saudia, Tunisair, Nouvelair
Tunis – Lyon	18	27	Tunisair, Transavia, Nouvelair
Tunis – Frankfurt	17	22	Lufthansa, Tunisair, Nouvelair
Tunis – Rome	17	26	ITA Airways, Tunisair

Two things stand out: the busiest route in winter is Tripoli Mitiga, ahead of Paris-Orly, and Jeddah is the only major route with twice as many flights in winter as in summer, because of the Umrah season. Paris-CDG, Lyon and Rome lose about a third of their flights but stay daily or almost daily.

Djerba: France holds, the rest stops

What continues in winter:

Route	Return flights / week in winter	In summer
Djerba – Paris-Orly	28	44
Djerba – Lyon	8	16
Djerba – Paris-CDG	7	22
Djerba – Marseille	5	8
Djerba – Nantes	4	8
Djerba – Katowice	3	15
Djerba – Frankfurt	3	7
Djerba – Luxembourg	2.5	6.5
Djerba – London Luton (easyJet)	2	2
Djerba – Manchester (easyJet)	2	2

What stops (at least 1.5 return flights a week in summer, almost nothing in winter): Porto (7 a week in summer), Nice, Lisbon, Milan, Poznań, Brno, Hanover, Ostrava, Verona, Stuttgart, Rome, Wrocław, Belgrade, Bordeaux and Vienna.

The two easyJet routes to the UK are the only ones that keep the same rhythm all year. In winter, four airlines operate most of Djerba’s flights: Transavia (26%), Tunisair Express (23%, mostly to Tunis), Nouvelair (23%) and Tunisair (17%).

Monastir: an almost entirely French airport in winter

What continues: Paris-Orly (10 return flights a week, against 25 in summer), Paris-CDG (9), Lyon (9), Nice (9) and Marseille (2). These five French routes make up most of the winter traffic, flown by Nouvelair (36% of flights), Tunisair (31%) and Transavia (27%).

What stops: all of Central and Eastern Europe, which is very present in summer. Belgrade (14 return flights a week in summer), Katowice (8), Prague (7), Bucharest and Bratislava (6), Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Wrocław, Vienna, Iași, Luxembourg, Moscow, Porto, Sarajevo and Skopje.

Across all flights the contrast is striking: Monastir went from 2,424 flights in August 2026 to 404 in February, six times fewer.

And this winter?

Airline winter schedules can change from one year to the next. Our first readings of the season show a trend: from 1 to 20 October 2026, Tunis-Carthage had 3% more flights than in the same period of 2025, Monastir 10% more, but Djerba 14% fewer. We will update this article during the winter.

What this means for you

• Your summer route no longer flies? Going via Tunis-Carthage is often still possible: most European destinations are served all year, and Tunisair Express links Tunis and Djerba several times a day.
• For the end-of-year holidays, there are fewer flights to Djerba and Monastir: book early.
• Before booking, each route page shows the flights of the last 90 days and the next departures: if a route no longer appears there, it is not flying at the moment.
• Enfidha-Hammamet airport, which is run separately, is not included in our data.

Method

The figures come from the schedules published by OACA for Tunis-Carthage, Djerba-Zarzis and Monastir airports, recorded every 30 minutes by Tunisia Airports. Winter: 1 November 2025 to 31 March 2026; summer: 1 June to 31 August 2026. Frequencies are weekly averages (scheduled flights, including those later cancelled), divided by two to give return flights. Only international flights are included in the tables. Codeshare flights are counted once. Tunisia Airports is an independent site, not affiliated with OACA or the airlines mentioned.