Tunis — The newspaper Le Temps reports in Monday's issue that the UK- based low-cost airline, Easy Jet has submitted a request to Tunisia 's civil aviation authorities (OACA) to operate a service from certain European cities such as Geneva, Paris and Frankfurt to respectively Tunis, Monastir and Djerba.

The new service is expected to start in summer 2009.

After Transavia, Ryanair and Thomsonfly, Easy Jet is the fourth low-cost airline to operate a service to major Tunisian cities.

The company which is ranked fourth European airline, ordered 202 airbus A 319 in June 2008, so far 117, have been delivered to the airline. Le Temps writes that the company flies to 100 European airports, as well as to Morocco, Turkey and Egypt. In 2008 it carried 43,7 million passengers.

The newspaper observes that the airline's new Tunisian service will have positive consequences on Tunisia's tourism especially during the busy summer season.