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CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Cape Town
International Airport FINALLY REALIGNING ITS RUNWAYS After a delay of two years, Cape Town International Airport is finally poised to start its huge runway re-alignment and expansion. This is a reflection of the huge success the airport has had in attracting more airlines and thus tourists and economic growth to Cape Town.
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largest
advertised. It is hoped that the primary
airport in Africa, Cape
contractor will be appointed before year-end
Town
or early next year – and construction will
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the
third
International
Airport (CTIA) handled
commence by mid-2020.
past year. Long overdue planned runway
Cape
Town
regularly
being
and infrastructure upgrades, which were
nominated as one of the best tourist
announced in 2013, and planned to begin
destinations in the world, CTIA’s role has
last year, have now been finalised and put
had to grow to match the demand. Remarkably, Airport General Manager
out to tender. A significant cause in the delay of the
Deon Cloete says that ten years ago
new runway and expansion was the more
the airport was planning for a 90/10 split
than an extra year’s delay in obtaining
between international travellers and 90%
final approval of the Environmental Impact
local travellers. Due to the Cape’s success
Assessment (EIA). True to the Cape Town
as a tourist destination, and in attracting
City Council’s increasing reputation for
new airlines, this mix is now nearer 25%
excessive bureaucracy, the delay in EIA
international and 75% domestic. This is
approval has been largely responsible for
largely due to the airport’s ability to attract
setting back this billion Rand development
new airlines and expand the routes it serves.
by a number of years, thanks to its taking
The world renowned Cape Air Access
a total of six years for a just a limited EIA
Initiative has been instrumental in this
approval.
success.
However, the good news is that after
Due to Cape Town’s popularity as a
much perseverance, a Record of Decision
tourist destination, and increasing business
has
between Johannesburg and Cape Town,
now
been
agreed
and
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tenders
Town International Airport continues to see notable growth in passenger numbers, with it maintaining its position as the second busiest international airport in South Africa, and third busiest in Africa. The airport saw a 4 percent increase in passenger traffic during the past year, to over 11 million, compared to the 2017/18 financial year, which saw approximately 10,500,000 passengers pass through the airport’s gates. A few years ago, the JohannesburgCape Town route was one of the top 10 busiest air routes in the world. It has slipped out to eleventh, but in 2018, around 8 domestic travellers. The remainder were
TOURISM With
home town for many South Africans, Cape
million of those ten million passengers were
almost eleven million passengers over the
plus the city’s increasing popularity as a
made up of nearly 3 million passengers on international flights and regional routes, and fewer than just 11,000 from unscheduled flights. Interestingly, total aircraft movements were slightly down due to a marked drop, from approximately 15,000 unscheduled flights to around 11,000. This decrease in unscheduled passenger traffic quantifies what many in Cape Town, and particularly those in the General Aviation area at the airport, know – that general aviation (GA) has been squeezed out to find a space elsewhere. Morningstar Airfield, 20 km north of the CBD, and Stellenbosch Flying Club appear to be popular refuges. Cape Town International’s new single runway will further discourage GA. THE NEW RUNWAY PROJECT Catering to the increasing demand for
Cape Town Airport.
scheduled flights into Cape Town, and looking to further
Cape Town Airport taken from a gyrocopter.
grow capacity, back in 2013, Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) announced plans to lengthen and re-align Cape Town’s primary runway, Runway 18/36. It will be rotated 11.5 degrees, lengthened by 300 m to 3,500 m, and strengthened, allowing larger aircraft such as the A380 and other Code F aircraft to land at the airport. The runway will have parallel and rapid exit taxiways (RETs), which are currently absent at the airport, as well as an aircraft isolation pad (AIP), a compass calibration pad, an aircraft run-up area, and security facilities, including a perimeter fence and upgraded service roads. The RETs will mean the demolishing of the secondary runway, which is used primarily by smaller and other noncommercial aircraft. The runway project will cost around R3.7 billion. Then, in May 2015, ACSA announced further expansion plans, which include the upgrading of Cape Town’s domestic and international terminals, bringing the estimated total cost for the upgrades (runway and terminals) to R8.5 billion, and directly employing between 900 and 3,200 additional people, according to ACSA. Construction is expected to begin in 2020 and it is hoped it will take around three years to complete. The upgrades will have to accommodate the urban sprawl around the airport and assessments have been done to ensure the surrounding population is not overly impacted. The use of the Denel site to the south east Considered an ideal location for expansion in the early ‘50s, the airport is now surrounded by industrial and low-cost housing development, and the expansion plans
Guy Leitch
of the airport is key to this integrated land use plan.
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bring with them predicted exceedances of noise level guidelines
and affected parties. The environmental impact assessment took
in residential areas up to 15 km from the airport, according to an
nearly six years of planning and assessment and included extensive
environmental impact assessment (EIA) report.
public consultation. At the announcement of the authorisation,
To accommodate the noise sensitivities the glideslope has
airport GM Deon Cloete said: “The environmental authorisation is
been specially approved as a 3.2 degree gradient rather than the
just one step in the process and the EIA process is not yet fully
standard 3 degrees. It is expected that this increase will position
concluded. We still have a way to go.”
the airport well for the expected increase in traffic from the current limit of 30 flights per hour to 45, a 50% increase. To mitigate the
GENERAL AVIATION
effects of noise pollution, environmental practitioners have advised
Cape Town International has a dedicated general aviation area
that noise contours be revised every five years to account for
on the airport’s south-western border. This section is home to the
changed policies, improved technologies, and altered flight paths
airport’s commercial non-scheduled operators, flight schools and
and schedules.
the Cape Town Flying Club, as well as various GA maintenance
The Department of Environmental Affairs has now authorised
facilities. It has its own refuelling facilities as well as hangarage for
the proposed runway realignment and associated infrastructure
small aircraft and training establishments, but lacks a dedicated
planned for the airport. The key spatial planning issues have been
GA customs and immigration facility.
addressed.
A number of helicopter charter companies, such as Cape Town
The Department’s notification was communicated to the airport
Helicopters and NAC, use the V&A Waterfront, near the city centre,
following a detailed examination of an independent environmental
as a base for flips around the peninsula and to wine estates and
impact assessment including submissions from other interested
surrounds.
British Airways has great success with Cape Town route thanks to Heathrow hub.
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