Bookings rise by 11% in June

Bookings on the regular Tunisair flights posted an 11-per-cent climb in June 2011, said, on Tuesday in Tunis, Mrs. Soulafa Mokaddem, Director of the National Carrier's Public Relations and Communication Department, at a regular meeting with the press.She recalled that Tunisair had launched 23 weekly flights to France, which brought the total number of regular flights up to 129. Twenty-one new flights are also scheduled for the first week of September, to guarantee the return of the Tunisian expatriates to France.Tunisair had launched, she reminded, a promotional campaign on the French market and staged a promotional fares strategy on the Internet for those who book in June for July, August and September.Discounts for this season, the Tunisair official underlined, concerned the under-17 Tunisian expatriates, instead of 15, and under-26-year youths, instead of 21.Tunisair also opened new lines to Moscow (Russia), Bilbao (Spain), Basle (Switzerland) and Manchester (England).