The City of Cape Town – working with investment and trade agency, Wesgro, to increase international air connectivity to the Mother City as part of the Air Access initiative – now has plans to expand Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) over the next five years to provide for additional capacity.
“The mandate set out for Air Access – which was launched in 2015 – is to expand current flight routes and to secure new routes to boost tourism and trade,” said City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, James Vos, who highlighted the need “to create more efficient connections between our city and key source markets”.
He said the planned expansion would increase capacity from 30 take-offs and landings per hour to 45.
“In five years we’ve landed 16 new flights – the latest being United’s service to New York in December last year,” said Wesgro ceo, Tim Harris.
During this period, Cape Town also secured 22 route expansions, increasing the international seat capacity to 1.5 million two-way seats. “We’ve basically doubled the non-stop connectivity to Cape Town,” added Tim.
