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Interview with

Mr. Hassine Helmi

7948-2008

Director General of Tunisair in

Switzerland

The director of Tunisair is ket to tlie forutli most iinpor- FTI, TUI and X6notours. In
a dynamic man in this taut market for regular activity addition to tlffs, we also liave
early 30s. Since beco- botli in traffic and revenue. fliglits from Zriricli and Basel
ming the director of Dning tlie last two years we aiid even Bei'ii after tlie exten-
Tunisair in Switzerland in liave doubled tlie sion of it's nuiway iii 2008.
October 2004, he has frequencies of fliglits from
overseen an increase In Geneva to Tui'iis. After many In tlie Truffsair Grorip, we also
the flights between years of operatiiqg witli three liave Sevenair wl'iicl'i is mainly
Geneva and Tunis from flights, we increased it to six an airline sei'ving Tunisian
three to six a week - soon fligl'its a week, and our clients regional aiipoits (Djerba, Sfax,
to be seven. This year the can already book and buy Tozeur, Gafsa, Monastir,
company is celebrating tickets on tlie seventli one star- Tabarlca) and otlier internatio-
its 60th anniversary, and ting next June 25th. Tliis nal aii'poits in tlie
we went to see him to means tliat we will liave daily Meditei'ranean region and
hear more about this suc- fliglits between Geneva to Europe (Naples, Nice,
cess stoiy. Truffs. Marseille, Algiers, Geneva,
Zui'icli...).
Q: Whatwould say is your Wlien we tallc aborit daily
main achievement since fligl'its we're talliig only about For instance, for the seven

you arrived here in tlie Geneva-Tunis axis. flights a week to Tuius, tlie
Geneva three years ago? However, from Geneva this toru'ists wlio would lilce to go
suni'ner, 2008, we will liave on to Djerba or anotlier desti-
Trmisair's presence iii Geneva 13 fliglits a week. Seven of nation in Tunisia can do so

goes back to 1965 wl'ien we tliem are direct fliglits to Tunis, usiiig Sevenair. Siiice last year,
opened oir office liere. So we one for the destination Sevenair lias also had chatter
liave been present liere in Monastir, anotber one for tlie fliglits between Switzerland
Geneva for 43 years. One island of Djerba and foir cliar- and Tunisia.
could say tliat an iinpoitant ters. We sei've as cliaiter opera- Tlie adyantage of Sevenair is
development lias taken place tor for most of tlie ii'npoitant tliat tliey liave si'iialler aircrafk
duiiiig the last two to tlyee tour operators iii Switzerlaiid : (42, 72 and 87 seats) and tliere-
years, leadiitg the Swiss mar- Kuoi'ii, Hotelplan, Air Mariit, fore Tunisair Group offers

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