26 Vol. 10 / No. 4 / April 2018 Global Aviator
weekly flights from Cape Town to
Britain. One of which, a direct flight
to London departing out of Cape
Town on Friday evenings, the second
a flight routed via Johannesburg.
The popularity of Cape Town
as a prime tourist destination is
matched by the equally vibrant
commercial business sector that is
bountiful to the national economy
of South Africa. Many of South
Africa’s biggest companies have their
headquarters in the “mother city”
while political officialdoms attending
to international relations are also
housed or based in Cape Town
As the rays of the evening sun
settle behind one of the world’s
most famous rocks, the blackened
silhouette of “the mountain” unfolds
into a city of lights twinkling brightly
around Table Bay, enhancing the
splendour of the Mother City. The
air traffic between Cape Town and
Johannesburg accounts for more
than 60% of the country’s air traffic
which is regarded to be the 9th
busiest air corridor in the world and
accounts for an estimated 5 million
passengers travelling each year on
this route between Cape Town and
Johannesburg. There are fewer more
inspiring sights than that for a pilot
seated in the cockpit of an aircraftapproaching CTIA in the early
evening for landing on Runway 19.Records continue to tumble:
Geared to handle an ever-increasing
volume of passengers, the airport’s
infrastructure handles between thirty
and thirty five thousand passengers
per day, translated during the
2016-17 financial year into a record
movement of 10.2 million passengers.The annual turnover derived during
this period is reported to be R1.7
Billion generated from regulatory
operational fees including pax
taxes and other ACSA commercial
interests including, motor vehicle
parking facilities, retail outlets within
the terminal buildings and related
properties within the airport precinct.
As these figures continue to
grow, CTIA ranks as the third busiest
airport on the African continentAircraft incidentsSouth African Airports
The approach onto Runway 19 will move 11.5 degrees counter clockwise to make way for the new R3.1bn runway 18/36.
The old runway 19/01 is to become a parallel taxiway, the diagonal runway 16/34 is to be closed and disbanded