DOMESTIC SKIES: Air Capacity in South Africa

This year marks the return of our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. We take a look at last year’s schedule as a snapshot and compare seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation using its OAG Schedules Analyser tool.

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN SOUTH AFRICA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Comair (MN)

6,095,726

36.7 %

9.6 %

2

South African Airways (SA)

4,516,020

27.2 %

(-0.4) %

3

Mango (JE)

2,615,366

15.7 %

21.6 %

4

South African Express (XZ)

1,942,328

11.7 %

(-10.5) %

5

SA Airlink (4Z)

970,481

5.8 %

6.0 %

6

Turkish Airlines (TK)

213,822

1.3 %

(-10.0) %

7

Qatar Airways (QR)

135,250

0.8 %

0.3 %

8

Singapore Airlines (SQ)

109,948

0.7 %

(-1.1) %

9

Federal Airlines (7V)

11,194

0.1 %

(-25.0) %

10

Air Mauritius (MK)

1,688

0.0 %

New Entrant

TOTAL

16,611,823

(-7.3) %

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN SOUTH AFRICA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Johannesburg (JNB)

6,017,166

36.2 %

(-7.6) %

2

Cape Town (CPT)

4,415,433

26.6 %

(-7.0) %

3

Durban (DUR)

2,715,851

16.3 %

(-9.0) %

4

Lanseria (HLA)

944,442

5.7 %

(-2.1) %

5

Port Elizabeth (PLZ)

847,808

5.1 %

(-8.8) %

6

East London (ELS)

417,540

2.5 %

(-9.9) %

7

George (GRJ)

330,638

2.0 %

(-5.7) %

8

Bloemfontein (BFN)

291,591

1.8 %

(-13.9) %

9

Nelspruit (MQP)

159,995

1.0 %

5.8 %

10

Kimberley (KIM)

112,313

0.7 %

(-5.4) %

11

Pietermaritzburg (PZB)

89,428

0.5 %

11.8 %

12

Richards Bay (RCB)

67,300

0.4 %

(-4.9) %

13

Hoedspruit (HDS)

60,968

0.4 %

(-1.5) %

14

Polokwane (PTG)

43,214

0.3 %

(-26.3) %

15

Upington (UTN)

42,204

0.3 %

17.2 %

TOTAL

16,611,823

-

(-7.3) %

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Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…