THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Democratic Republic of Congo

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Kinshasa N’djili International (FIH)

55

7,046

32.1 %

(-1.1) %

2

Lubumbashi Luano (FBM)

44

5,639

25.7 %

49.8 %

3

Mbuji Mayi (MJM)

29

3,818

17.4 %

19.8 %

4

Kisangani (FKI)

15

1,983

9.0 %

(-24.8) %

5

Kolwezi (KWZ)

6

888

4.0 %

New Entrant

6

Kananga (KGA)

5

716

3.3 %

(-58.9) %

7

Goma (GOM)

4

584

2.7 %

(-64.7) %

8

Mbandaka (MDK)

4

576

2.6 %

(-33.3) %

9

Gamena (GMA)

3

436

2.0 %

(-39.8) %

10

Kindu (KND)

1

140

0.6 %

(-67.3) %

(Others)

1

140

0.6 %

(-78.3) %

TOTAL

167

21,966

-

(-3.5) %

HOME AIRPORT: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Kinshasa N’djili International (FIH)

40

7,872

74.3 %

5.4 %

2

Lubumbashi Luano (FBM)

20

2,720

25.7 %

0.0 %

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100.0) %

TOTAL

60

10,592

-

3.6 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Johannesburg O R Tambo International (JNB)

14

2,073

19.6 %

31.4 %

2

Addis Ababa Bole International (ADD)

10

1,868

17.6 %

(-8.9) %

3

Brussels International (BRU)

7

1,806

17.1 %

59.0 %

4

Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International (NBO)

7

1,299

12.3 %

(-12.8) %

5

Casablanca Mohammed V (CMN)

5

1,034

9.8 %

118.6 %

6

Paris CDG (CDG)

4

876

8.3 %

0.0 %

7

Ndola (NLA)

7

812

7.7 %

75.0 %

8

Libreville (LBV)

4

592

5.6 %

33.3 %

9

Brazzaville Maya Maya (BZV)

2

232

2.2 %

(-58.3) %

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100.0) %

TOTAL

60

10,592

-

3.6 %

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…