The sector is held by Saudi Arabian Airlines and Tunisair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
JED Jeddah to TUN Tunis
King Abdulaziz International, Saudi Arabia, to Tunis Carthage, Tunisia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 3,254 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 25m
- Door to door
- 11h 10m
What JED to TUN looks like
The JED to TUN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jeddah JED to Tunis TUN is a medium haul sector of 3,254 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,254 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 25m.
Jeddah JED is a large airport in the network held here, 150 scheduled destinations and 424.7 departures a day. Tunis TUN has 61 destinations and 96.4 departures a day.
Jeddah carries about 4.4 times the departures of Tunis, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tunis is 2 hours behind of Jeddah all year.
The pair sits between Africa and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 18 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on JED to TUN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| JED to TUN | 3.14 | 22 | Saudi Arabian Airlines, Tunisair |
| TUN to JED | 1.89 | 13.2 | Saudi Arabian Airlines, Tunisair |
Two carriers hold the sector, Saudi Arabian Airlines and Tunisair, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: JED to TUN runs 3.1 times a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 3.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 35.2 departures a week on JED to TUN, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 4h 25m block time on JED to TUN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to JED | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At JED before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| JED to TUN in the air, estimated | 265 min | 8h 55m |
| Formalities at TUN | 90 min | 10h 25m |
| Delivery run in Tunis | 45 min | 11h 10m |
| Door to door | 670 min | 11h 10m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for JED to TUN is 11h 10m.
A courier who leaves Jeddah at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tunis at about 11:25 local and at the door by 13:40 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tunis, the last useful departure from Jeddah is around 13:20 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 28 of them join JED to TUN.
| Connecting at | JED to hub, flights a day | Hub to TUN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benghazi BEN | 1.29 | 3.43 | 3,258 | 6h 09m |
| Tripoli MJI | 3.14 | 2.29 | 3,355 | 6h 23m |
| Cairo CAI | 49.43 | 1.71 | 3,313 | 6h 29m |
| Amman AMM | 8.57 | 1.14 | 3,587 | 6h 35m |
| Athens ATH | 1.29 | 0.57 | 3,539 | 6h 46m |
| Rome FCO | 1.14 | 4.29 | 3,940 | 7h 24m |
With 3.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
28 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Benghazi BEN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BEN the routing covers 3,258 km against the 3,254 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 09m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tripoli MJI at 6h 23m and Cairo CAI at 6h 29m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tunis, Monastir MIR is 130 km away by great circle and carries 65 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Jeddah to Tunis yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for JED to TUN in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The JED airport entry
- The TUN airport entry
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- Hand carry into Tunisia
- The written lane, Jeddah to Istanbul
- The written lane, Sharjah to Jeddah
- The route calculator
More pairs through JED and TUN: Jeddah to Cairo, Paris to Jeddah, Jeddah to Riyadh, London to Jeddah, Jeddah to Mumbai, Jeddah to Dubai, Jakarta to Jeddah, Jeddah to Kuala Lumpur.