Cape Town International Airport

Cape Town International Airport Kaapstad Internasionale Lughawe (Afrikaans) Isikhululo Seenqwelomoya saseKapa (Xhosa)
IATA: CPT ICAO: FACT WMO: 68816
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Airports Company South Africa
Serves	City of Cape Town
Location	Matroosfontein, Western Cape, South Africa
Opened	1954; 70 years ago (1954)
Hub for	Airlink FlySafair
Focus city for	South African Airways
Elevation AMSL	46 m / 151 ft
Coordinates	33°58′10″S 018°35′50″E / 33.96944°S 18.59722°E / -33.96944; 18.59722
Website	airports.co.za
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 3,201 10,502 Asphalt 16/34 1,701 5,581 Asphalt
Statistics (April–March 2024)
Passengers 10 034 352 Aircraft movements 99 138
Source: Passenger and Aircraft Statistics[1]

Cape Town International Airport (IATA: CPT, ICAO: FACT) is the primary international airport serving the city of Cape Town, and is the second-busiest airport in South Africa and fifth-busiest in Africa. Located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the city center, the airport was opened in 1954 to replace Cape Town's previous airport, Wingfield Aerodrome. Cape Town International Airport is the only airport in the Cape Town metropolitan area that offers scheduled passenger services. The airport has domestic and international terminals, linked by a common central terminal.

The airport has direct flights from South Africa's other two main urban areas, Johannesburg and Durban, as well as flights to smaller centers in South Africa. Internationally, it has direct flights to several destinations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, South America and the United States. The air route between Cape Town and Johannesburg was the world's ninth-busiest air route in 2011 with an estimated 4.5 million passengers.^[2]