DOMESTIC SKIES: South Africa

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.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

83,155

3.0 %

7,283,013

(-10.0) %

1983

73,120

(-12.1) %

6,895,449

(-5.3) %

1984

73,187

0.1 %

7,054,959

2.3 %

1985

73,329

0.2 %

7,081,731

0.4 %

1986

70,501

(-3.9) %

6,136,944

(-13.3) %

1987

76,264

8.2 %

6,839,484

11.4 %

1988

84,426

10.7 %

7,891,098

15.4 %

1989

79,844

(-5.4) %

8,267,717

4.8 %

1990

79,433

(-0.5) %

8,032,707

(-2.8) %

1991

75,696

(-4.7) %

7,496,930

(-6.7) %

1992

85,748

13.3 %

8,844,096

18.0 %

1993

84,570

(-1.4) %

8,622,757

(-2.5) %

1994

87,482

3.4 %

8,291,473

(-3.8) %

1995

94,859

8.4 %

8,806,618

6.2 %

1996

108,557

14.4 %

9,908,866

12.5 %

1997

114,943

5.9 %

10,241,206

3.4 %

1998

120,856

5.1 %

11,217,766

9.5 %

1999

125,534

3.9 %

12,235,779

9.1 %

2000

123,117

(-1.9) %

12,396,522

1.3 %

2001

126,218

2.5 %

12,039,418

(-2.9) %

2002

123,621

(-2.1) %

11,994,402

(-0.4) %

2003

127,270

3.0 %

12,610,904

5.1 %

2004

128,774

1.2 %

13,010,461

3.2 %

2005

133,124

3.4 %

13,321,766

2.4 %

2006

134,268

0.9 %

13,554,565

1.7 %

2007

155,490

15.8 %

15,939,781

17.6 %

2008

157,804

1.5 %

16,331,327

2.5 %

2009

152,080

(-3.6) %

16,061,226

(-1.7) %

2010

151,185

(-0.6) %

17,427,616

8.5 %

2011

155,037

2.5 %

18,155,899

4.2 %

2012

146,647

(-5.4) %

17,632,293

(-2.9) %

Richard Maslen

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