 The passenger traffic grew steadily from 1951 when 56,400 passengers were carried, 33,400 of them by Air France.The airport offered a convenient stop-over point for several other French airlines over the years, including Aigle Azur with a stop in Tunis on the Paris-Brazzaville route, and TAI (Intercontinental Air Transport) with a stop in Tunis on its Paris-Saigon route.Among foreign companies, the TWA is present, whose lines Rome-New York and Rome-Bombay make stop in Tunis, and the LAI (Italian company) which makes the connection Rome-Palermo-Tunis.