The incredible £67 million airport named the best in Africa in 2025 | World | News
A large travel center in South Africa has firmly established among the best of African aviation, which provides more than one praise at the 2025 Skytrax World Airport Awards earlier this year. This airport, which is only 12 miles away from the main economic center of the city, is the second largest and fourth largest airport in the country.
Cape Town International Airport (CPT) first opened to replace Cape Town’s previous airport Wingfield Aerodrome in 1954 and offers direct flights to the Middle East, Asia, Europe, South America and Australia. Nationally, the airway to Johannesburg was the most intense domestic route of Africa, which carried about five million passengers based on the number of seat capacity in 2023. At this year’s award ceremony, Cape Town was accepted as the best airport in Africa, and at the same time he was honored for his best airport staff and the cleanest airport in Africa.
The airport was first opened from Jan Smuts Airport (now or Tambo International Airport) near Johannesburg. Initially called Bellville Airport, because of its proximity to the town bearing the same name, it initially served as an indigenous airport. Later, with the fall of Apartheid in the early 1990s, he was renamed after South African Prime Minister DF Malan before he was renamed to Cape Town International Airport.
A offer in 2018 To rename the airport once again after Nelson Mandela moved to the table, but in February 2021 The plan was officially abandoned due to a lack of consensus.
Prepared for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, wide expansion and renovation was made to the airport. The main focal point was to develop a central terminal building that previously connected separate domestic and international terminals and provided a common check-in area and provided a common check-in area. A secondary runway of 5,577FT was built compared to the main runway in 10.499ft.
Later, in 2019, the airport announced the R7 billion (£ 294 million) infrastructure investment plan, including re -alignment, terminal renewal and other expansions. However, this was postponed indefinitely after a decrease in the number of passengers due to COVİD-19 pandemia.
Each year, more than 5.4 million passengers and about 51,500 airports manage the airport traffic movement. Airport Company South Africa.
There are two hotels in the airport area, the first is a four -star hotel belonging to Bon Hotels and is a “Greenest Hotel in Africa”, while the other is a budget hotel with a budget hotel with a City Lodge Hotel chain group.
British Airways and seasonal Gatwick Route, Emirates, Lufthansa, Klm, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, Seasonal Heathrow Rot, the seasonal Gatwick route between the Airlines flying to Cape Town International Airport throughout the year Airlines is located.
At the Skytrax Awards, Singapore Changi Airport demanded the title of the best airport in the world and also received home awards for the best meal, best toilets and the best airport in Asia. The awards are based on a comprehensive global airport customer satisfaction survey of 575 airports between August 2024 and February 2025.
