Global Aviator South Africa - April 2018

28 Vol. 10 / No. 4 / April 2018 Global Aviator

behind Johannesburg’s OR Tambo

International Airport (ORTIA) and

Cairo’s International Airport in Egypt.

The continued improvement in

international passenger movements

processed during the CTIA financial

year ending at 31 March indicates the

growth in this sector to exceed 20%

per annum, which relates to 2.7million

international air travellers passing the

airports gates. This figure reflects in

the ratio between domestic travellers

versus international travellers has

been leaning approximately towards

80% domestic passengers versus

20% international travellers. Recent

reviews indicate however, the growth

in foreign travellers has increased

to 25% of passengers passing

through the airport. The growth in

domestic air travel between Cape

Town and all other ACSA airports

continues however to grow, but at a

nominal 4-5% growth per annum.

Passenger and

Baggage handling

Managing the movement of

passengers is dependent, as

with any large airport, on the

process of handling passenger

baggage, especially during high

season demands for travel.

On any given day the airports

fully automated baggage handling

system manages to move up to

3300 pieces of baggage per hour.

On an average day the airport most

effectively moves approximately

12 000 pieces of baggage in a day,

but during peak periods especially

when there are prestige social events

happening in the city, this number

can escalate up to as many as 22

000 pieces of baggage per day.

Keeping with modern

infrastructural systems, CTIA is

abreast with technology and the

complexity of processing of passengers

by improving it’s operational

systems. Passengers not carrying

extra baggage can virtually arrive at

the boarding gates without standing

and waiting at lengthy check in

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A scene for international arriving passengers passing through the

colorful concourse in the International Arrivals Terminal.

The spacious interior of the Central Terminal Building (CTB) both

domestic and passenger processing procedures.