Know Africa’s Busiest Air Routes

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Know Africa’s Busiest Air Routes
22nd May 2018 EABW Editor Comment(0)

BY EABW REPORTER


Ariel view of Oliver Tambo International Airport. The domestic route between OR Tambo International Airport and Cape Town International Airport is the busiest in Africa.
KAMPALA, UGANDA- Aviation in Africa is busy. This is obviously the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A research has found that the South African domestic flight between Cape Town and Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport is the busiest on the continent. More than 4.7 million passengers flew the 1,292 km between the two airports in the last calendar year.

The top 100 aviation routes in Africa by total capacity in 2017, according to OAG Schedules Analyser, and then ordered them using passenger data provided by Sabre Airline Solutions.

Eight airlines operated services between Cape Town and O.R. Tambo International during the year, with the average cost of a ticket at US$78. In total there was in excess of 34,000 flights between the two destinations in 2017, equating to an average of 95 flights per day.


Cape Town International Airport.
Second in the list is the flight between O.R. Tambo International and Durban’s King Shaka International Airport. A total of 2.87 million passengers flew between the two cities, which at just 498 km is the shortest flight by distance in the top ten.

The third-busiest route links Egypt’s capital city Cairo with the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah, while the flight between Nigeria’s capital Abuja and its largest city Lagos ranked fourth. The two services attracted 1.7 million and 1.3 million passengers respectively.

Completing the top five is Cape Town to Lanseria International Airport, situated to the north west of Johannesburg, with 1.2 million passengers.

The top ten air links:

1 Johannesburg O.r. Tambo (JNB) – Cape Town (CPT)

2 Johannesburg O.r. Tambo (JNB) – Durban King Shaka (DUR)

3 Cairo International (CAI) – Jeddah (JED)

4 Abuja (ABV) – Lagos (LOS)

5 Johannesburg Lanseria (HLA) – Cape Town (CPT)

6 Durban King Shaka (DUR) – Cape Town (CPT)

7 Johannesburg O.r. Tambo (JNB) – Port Elizabeth (PLZ)

8 Johannesburg O.r. Tambo (JNB) – Dubai International (DXB)

9 Cairo International (CAI) – Riyadh King Khalid (RUH)

10 Cairo International (CAI) – Kuwait (KWI)

http://www.busiweek.com/know-africas-busiest-air-routes/
 
OR Tambo airport makes other african airports look like jokes🙄🙄wah!
 
OR Tambo airport makes other african airports look like jokes🙄🙄wah!
the distance is 1, 200km btn those two cities but avg fare is $78. thats 7, 800 ksh ...kumbuka gdp/capita yao ni $5000 ...

kuku Kenya... that 7, 800 is for low cost carrier to a distance of 400km.... KQ will charge you 13, 000 to mombasa a distance less than 500km....tena gdp/capita yetu ni $1, 800... meaning airline travell is out of reach to most folks.... its only a once or twice a year thing in kenya, while in SA, flying is a once a month thing
 
Johannesburg is doing better than Dar es salaam @ I dont know other city
 
When I saw the title, I thought Dar was somewhere.😀😀😀😀
I also thought Nairobi was there but nada! a reason to worry with coming up of Air Tanzania as u dont have enough PAX within Kenya! U depend on being a hub for other countries within EAC. Tuliwashtukia ndo maana tukakataa EA one visa for tourists!
 
I also thought Nairobi was there but nada! a reason to worry with coming up of Air Tanzania as u dont have enough PAX within Kenya! U depend on being a hub for other countries within EAC. Tuliwashtukia ndo maana tukakataa EA one visa for tourists!
ATCL haitupi shida hata kidogo brathee. Vipi kuliendaje na ile Fast Jet ambaye ilikua iangushe KQ?
 
Thanks for recognizing JKIA as the busiest and largest Airport in East and Central Africa.
U always stage-manage that busiest airport in the region by forcing every airline from overseas to land only in Nairobi within Kenya. Just like the way u stagemanaged Safaricom to grow to 80% market share!
 
Sinta
KQ is very expensive still bado wanatengeneza hasara. December though it is high season still unreasonable to charge me $1200 Juba-Dar and under normal circumstance I pay $600-750 which is still expensive.
 
Sinta

KQ is very expensive still bado wanatengeneza hasara. December though it is high season still unreasonable to charge me $1200 Juba-Dar and under normal circumstance I pay $600-750 which is still expensive.
ndo sababu serikali inafufua Air Tanzania kukupa unafuu!
 
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