THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: South Africa

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

SOUTH AFRICA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Comair (MN)

651

99,591

31.6 %

(-16.5) %

2

South African Airways (SA)

568

86,722

27.5 %

5.2 %

3

South African Express (XZ)

612

41,184

13.1 %

(-0.9) %

4

OneTime Airlines (T6)

222

34,854

11.1 %

(-22.1) %

5

Mango (JE)

184

34,224

10.9 %

(-11.5) %

6

South African Airlink (4Z)

415

18,259

5.8 %

4.4 %

7

Federal Airlines (7V)

20

220

0.1 %

New Entrant

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100) %

TOTAL

2,672

315,054

-

(-8.5) %

SOUTH AFRICA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

South African Airways (SA)

240

46,836

32.9 %

3.0 %

2

Emirates Airline (EK)

42

13,551

9.5 %

7.1 %

3

British Airways (BA)

24

7,755

5.5 %

9.6 %

4

South African Airlink (4Z)

119

5,747

4.0 %

5.4 %

5

Air Namibia (SW)

45

4,567

3.2 %

(-1.9) %

6

Air Botswana (BP)

49

4,428

3.1 %

5.3 %

7

Comair (MN)

36

4,127

2.9 %

(-10.3) %

8

KLM (KL)

12

3,924

2.8 %

0.0 %

9

Lufthansa (LH)

7

3,682

2.6 %

0.0 %

10

South African Express (XZ)

61

3,654

2.6 %

(-26.7) %

(Others)

230

44,008

30.9 %

(-13.6) %

TOTAL

865

142,279

-

(-3.6) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…