The sector is held by Nouvelair Tunisie, Transavia France and Tunisair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MRS Marseille to MIR Monastir
Marseille Provence, France, to Monastir Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 976 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 45m
- Door to door
- 8h 30m
What MRS to MIR looks like
The MRS to MIR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Marseille MRS to Monastir MIR is a short sector of 976 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 976 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 45m.
Marseille MRS is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 158 departures a day. Monastir MIR has 65 destinations and 40 departures a day.
Marseille carries about 4 times the departures of Monastir, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Monastir runs no time shift at all of Marseille in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MRS to MIR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRS to MIR | 1.57 | 11 | Nouvelair Tunisie, Transavia France, Tunisair |
| MIR to MRS | 1.43 | 10 | Nouvelair Tunisie, Transavia France, Tunisair |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 21 departures a week on MRS to MIR, 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 1h 45m block time on MRS to MIR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MRS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MRS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MRS to MIR in the air, estimated | 105 min | 6h 15m |
| Formalities at MIR | 90 min | 7h 45m |
| Delivery run in Monastir | 45 min | 8h 30m |
| Door to door | 510 min | 8h 30m |
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 MRS to MIR is 8h 30m.
A courier who leaves Marseille at 09:00 local is on the ground in Monastir at about 10:45 local and at the door by 13:00 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Monastir, the last useful departure from Marseille is around 14:00 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. 26 of them join MRS to MIR.
| Connecting at | MRS to hub, flights a day | Hub to MIR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes NTE | 3.57 | 1 | 2,304 | 5h 05m |
| Paris ORY | 1.14 | 5.14 | 2,225 | 5h 12m |
| Luxembourg City LUX | 0.71 | 0.57 | 2,277 | 5h 17m |
| Munich MUC | 3.43 | 0.57 | 2,149 | 5h 24m |
| Paris CDG | 11.71 | 2.86 | 2,271 | 5h 32m |
| Brussels BRU | 1.86 | 1 | 2,589 | 5h 34m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at MRS in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nantes NTE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NTE the routing covers 2,304 km against the 976 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 05m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 20m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Paris ORY at 5h 12m and Luxembourg City LUX at 5h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Marseille, Nice NCE is 163 km away by great circle and carries 116 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Monastir, Tunis TUN is 130 km away by great circle and carries 61 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through MRS or MIR. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus Helicopters, MarignaneHelicopter final assembly and the group helicopter head office. Rotorcraft AOG, frequently for offshore and medical operators who cannot wait. Logistics through Marseille MRS.
Plan Marseille to Monastir 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 MRS to MIR 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 MRS airport entry
- The MIR airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Tunisia
- The route calculator
More pairs through MRS and MIR: Monastir to Paris, Bratislava to Monastir, Hannover to Monastir, Lyon to Monastir, Seoul to Marseille, Marseille to Lisbon, Marseille to Toulouse, Berlin to Marseille.