The sector is held by Nouvelair Tunisie and Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to TUN Tunis
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Tunis Carthage, Tunisia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,503 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 25m
- Door to door
- 9h 10m
What NTE to TUN looks like
The NTE to TUN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Tunis TUN is a medium haul sector of 1,503 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,503 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 25m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Tunis TUN has 61 destinations and 96.4 departures a day.
Tunis runs no time shift at all of Nantes 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 NTE to TUN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to TUN | 1.14 | 8 | Nouvelair Tunisie, Transavia France |
| TUN to NTE | 1.14 | 8 | Nouvelair Tunisie, Transavia France |
Two carriers hold the sector, Nouvelair Tunisie and Transavia France, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on NTE 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 2h 25m block time on NTE 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 NTE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NTE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NTE to TUN in the air, estimated | 145 min | 6h 55m |
| Formalities at TUN | 90 min | 8h 25m |
| Delivery run in Tunis | 45 min | 9h 10m |
| Door to door | 550 min | 9h 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 NTE to TUN is 9h 10m.
A courier who leaves Nantes 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 Nantes 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 NTE to TUN.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to TUN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse TLS | 2 | 1.57 | 1,519 | 4h 02m |
| Marseille MRS | 3.71 | 4.57 | 1,522 | 4h 20m |
| Lyon LYS | 4.14 | 4.57 | 1,613 | 4h 24m |
| Algiers ALG | 1 | 4 | 1,854 | 4h 29m |
| Geneva GVA | 2 | 2.14 | 1,695 | 4h 32m |
| Nice NCE | 2.86 | 3.86 | 1,589 | 4h 36m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at NTE in the afternoon actually flies on.
28 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Toulouse TLS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TLS the routing covers 1,519 km against the 1,503 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 02m 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 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Marseille MRS at 4h 20m and Lyon LYS at 4h 24m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through NTE or TUN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-NazaireCentre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. Logistics through Nantes NTE.
Plan Nantes 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.
min
min
min
min
Restrictions
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 NTE 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 NTE airport entry
- The TUN airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Tunisia
- The route calculator
More pairs through NTE and TUN: Toulouse to Nantes, Montreal to Nantes, Nantes to Lisbon, Nantes to Geneva, Lyon to Nantes, Marseille to Nantes, Nantes to Casablanca, Nantes to Palma.