Cape Town International Airport

Cape Town International Airport, South Africa's second-largest airport, is a prime tourism gateway – because the Western Cape is one of this country's major attractions. And, because the airport is often a visitor's first encounter with South Africa, it aims for world-class service and strives to offer everything a passenger might need - from accommodation to a VIP room. In fact, Cape Town International Airport has been the World Travel Awards' leading airport in Africa for six years in a row.

Traffic has grown strongly since 1994: the statistics show that aircraft movements have passed 60 000 a year. And projections have the total number of passengers at Cape Town International increasing from 5 million in 2003 to 14 million by 2015.

Rising traffic, of course, demands the constant development of services and facilities – something to which ACSA has committed R1-billion.

For example, the light and spacious International Arrivals terminal, which opened in March 2001, now has the capacity to process 950 passengers an hour.
And the R120-million International Departures terminal, which opened in February 2003, has 68 check-in counters and can handle up to 1 300 passengers an hour - three times that of its predecessor.

But, because the airport still lacks enough aircraft parking next to the main terminal buildings, the long-term plan is for remote parking alongside satellite terminals linked to the main building by an underground passage with travelators.

It's not only the increasing number of aircraft that need place to park: the projected growth in passenger volume means a corresponding increase in the number of cars at the airport. ACSA's plan is to build two parkades, linked to Domestic Arrivals and International Arrivals by elevated walkways.

Cape Town International Airport, however, is not just a doorway to southern Africa's premier international tourist destination for an ever-increasing number of visitors. Like its sister airport in Johannesburg, its role extends to the commercial world: it offers some fantastic business and property development opportunities. One planned development, Freight City, will accommodate the large number of freight agents who have offices at the airport but need warehouses in which to store goods.

Another unique feature of Cape Town International Airport is its fire and rescue simulator, the only one of its kind on the African continent. For more on the running of the airport see airport operations.
1,000 short term parking spaces, 600 long term parking spaces

Cape Town International Airport
Private Bag X9002, Cape Town International Airport, 7525, South Africa

phone: +27 (0)21 937 1257
email: webmaster@acsa.co.za
web: www.airports.co.za/home.asp?pid=1156

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