Cape Town International Airport is Africa’s 3rd largest airport. It is also Africa’s premier tourist and VIP destination and has established a reputation as Africa’s premier international award-winning airport, consistently performing among the best in the world for service in its category.
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.
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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.
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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.
In addition to flights to smaller South African cities, the airport offers direct service from Johannesburg and Durban, the country’s other two largest cities.
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It offers direct flights from the United States to a number of locations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and South America. With a projected 4.5 million passengers, the route connecting Cape Town and Johannesburg was the tenth busiest in the world in 2011.
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