Johannesburg - Cape Town International Airport has geared up
its festive season plans ahead of the busy summer season, according to the
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa).
It said on Monday that passenger numbers for November had
shown an increase of 6% compared with the same period last year, with a total
of just under 760 000 arriving and departing passengers in Cape Town.
November saw just under 300 000 domestic arriving
passengers, marking a 4% increase in domestic arriving passengers compared with
November last year, while the departure front saw an increase of 6%.
International arriving passenger numbers for November showed
"an impressive" increase of 14% compared with the same period last
year, while international departing passenger numbers grew by 10% compared with
last year.
"To date the airport has processed just over 7.6
million passengers with an average of 23 000 passengers moving through the
airport per day," says Deidre Davids, communications manager at Cape Town
International Airport.
"As is always the case, this time of year the
operational teams put various plans in place to ensure that the airport is able
to deal with the number of passengers and visitors passing through the
airport."