Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is planning to start work on new or expanded domestic passenger terminal facilities at both Cape Town International Airport and Johannesburg‘s OR Tambo International Airport in the near future. ACSA CEO Bongani Maseko said on Friday.
“We have a five-year planning cycle and in the 2015-2020 planning cycle there are plans to start work in the domestic terminal in Cape Town,” he said. “In this cycle we’re also planning to start work on the mid-field terminal [at OR Tambo], between the runways.”
In his presentation on Friday launching ACSA’s first ‘Aviation Barometer’ quarterly report on air passenger traffic data, Maseko noted that the domestic terminals at both airports had reached their maximum peak-hour capacity; hence the need to expand the facility at Cape Town and to construct a completely new terminal at Johannesburg.
Another factor is increasing international air traffic. Maseko reported that major South American carrier LatAm would start flights from São Paulo to Johannesburg in November. Other foreign carriers had increased the number of their flights to Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Maseko told Engineering News Online that the operation of Airbus A380 Super jumbos into OR Tambo had had an effect. “We currently have three airlines flying A380sinto OR Tambo – Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa. Emirates has indicated an interest to start flying A380s [to Johannesburg] next year.”
“Two European carriers [new to South Africa] are going to start flying into both Cape Town and Johannesburg later this year,” he said.
