THE AIRPORT 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

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Johannesburg OR Tambo International (JNB)

909

113,574

36.0 %

(-9.3) %

2

Cape Town International (CPT)

577

80,054

25.4 %

(-8.6) %

3

Durban International (DUR)

408

53,730

17.1 %

(-12.8) %

4

Port Elizabeth (PLZ)

177

16,821

5.3 %

(-7.4) %

5

Lanseria (HLA)

94

16,552

5.3 %

(-4.6) %

6

East London (ELS)

106

9,225

2.9 %

2.1 %

7

Bloemfontein (BFN)

92

6,905

2.2 %

(-1.0) %

8

George (GRJ)

69

6,645

2.1 %

(-4.0) %

9

Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga (MQP)

54

2,852

0.9 %

(-9.2) %

10

Kimberley (KIM)

35

2,324

0.7 %

20.9 %

(Others)

151

6,372

2.0 %

1.4 %

TOTAL

2,672

315,054

-

(-8.5) %

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

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Johannesburg OR Tambo International (JNB)

752

125,664

88.3 %

(-3.7) %

2

Cape Town International (CPT)

80

13,406

9.4 %

(-8.6) %

3

Durban International (DUR)

14

2,403

1.7 %

17.1 %

4

Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga (MQP)

12

484

0.3 %

115.1 %

5

Lanseria (HLA)

7

322

0.2 %

19.3 %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

865

142,279

-

(-3.6) %

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

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

London Heathrow (LHR)

50

14,410

10.1 %

0.8 %

2

Dubai International (DXB)

42

13,551

9.5 %

7.1 %

3

Windhoek Hosea Kutako International (WDH)

76

8,101

5.7 %

4.9 %

4

Frankfurt Rhein-Main (FRA)

14

5,901

4.1 %

0.0 %

5

Gaborone Sir Seretse Khama International (GBE)

68

5,506

3.9 %

(-21.0) %

6

Harare (HRE)

42

4,915

3.5 %

(-36.0) %

7

Maputo International (MPM)

49

4,396

3.1 %

(-2.6) %

8

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)

12

3,924

2.8 %

0.0

9

Hong Kong International (HKG)

14

3,770

2.6 %

(-2.8) %

10

Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International (NBO)

25

3,585

2.5 %

(-12.8) %

(Others)

473

74,220

52.2 %

(-2.4) %

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…