The OnBoard Courier for Tunisia

After it come Monastir (MIR) with 65 destinations and about 40 departures a day and Sfax (SFA) with 1 destinations and about 1.6 departures a day. Those are the alternates. When the primary gateway is shut by weather, a strike or a curfew, they are what a courier is rebooked through. Between them the 3 airports in Tunisia that publish departures schedule about 137.9 movements a day and reach 127 separate destinations, counting each city once per airport.

Reach matters more than frequency for a hand carry, because a courier flies whatever is leaving. From TUN alone, 847 airports are reachable with exactly one change, on top of the 61 served nonstop. A gateway that multiplies its own reach that far with one change is a hub in the useful sense: almost anywhere is two boarding passes away. It is computed from the scheduled network rather than from a booking engine.

3 per cent of everything scheduled to leave the country stays inside it, across 2 domestic destinations. That matters on a hand carry because it decides whether the last leg can be flown or has to be driven. A consignee away from the gateway is a road leg, and the road leg is where the hours go.

Outside its own borders the country is tied most closely to France, about 50 flights a day, Germany, about 12.6 flights a day, Italy, about 10.1 flights a day, Libya, about 6.3 flights a day and Algeria, about 5.9 flights a day. Those are the markets a courier can reach from Tunisia without a long connection, and they are also where a third country leg most often starts: an item that has to go from Tunisia to somewhere with no direct service usually travels through one of them.

39 airlines fly out of Tunisia in this data. Counted by how many of the country's routes each one appears on, the widest networks belong to Nouvelair Tunisie on 59 routes, Tunisair on 41 routes, Transavia France on 12 routes, Tunisair Express on 6 routes and HiSky on 6 routes. The carrier matters to a hand carry more than it does to freight, because cabin baggage rules, what counts as an acceptable carry on item and whether an extra seat can be bought are set by the airline and not by the airport.

The longest single sector out of TUN in this data runs to Montreal, Canada (YUL), 6,770 km by great circle. Great circle is not a flown distance and will read short against a real routing, but it is the honest way to state a reach: it says what one aircraft does without stopping, which is exactly the question a courier desk is asking.

Counting what is already published, this site holds 2 standalone city pages and 3 Atlas entries for Tunisia, and every one of them is linked from this page. That is the point of a country index: the material exists, it was written one page at a time, and until now there was no single place that connected it.

Alongside the reference material there is the country desk page and the courier recruitment page for people who already fly this market. The coverage here is thin, and saying so is more useful than padding it. What exists is accurate; what is missing is missing because nothing on this desk has been written about it yet.