INTERNATIONAL 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 INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

9,442

(-2.3) %

1,484,523

(-5.1) %

1983

9,501

0.6 %

1,453,787

(-2.1) %

1984

8,782

(-7.6) %

1,458,345

0.3 %

1985

8,724

(-0.7) %

1,406,076

(-3.6) %

1986

8,169

(-6.4) %

1,301,101

(-7.5) %

1987

8,108

(-0.7) %

1,221,860

(-6.1) %

1988

8,575

5.8 %

1,283,229

5.0 %

1989

8,384

(-2.2) %

1,383,668

7.8 %

1990

9,072

8.2 %

1,484,415

7.3 %

1991

10,157

12.0 %

1,525,754

2.8 %

1992

12,147

19.6 %

1,882,088

23.4 %

1993

13,876

14.2 %

2,283,897

21.3 %

1994

13,627

(-1.8) %

2,402,620

5.2 %

1995

15,508

13.8 %

2,789,553

16.1 %

1996

18,344

18.3 %

3,432,555

23.1 %

1997

20,732

13.0 %

3,817,864

11.2 %

1998

23,990

15.7 %

4,182,047

9.5 %

1999

27,049

12.8 %

4,710,898

12.6 %

2000

28,520

5.4 %

5,061,632

7.4 %

2001

29,452

3.3 %

4,973,685

(-1.7) %

2002

31,197

5.9 %

5,086,360

2.3 %

2003

33,470

7.3 %

5,357,975

5.3 %

2004

35,342

5.6 %

5,650,772

5.5 %

2005

40,887

15.7 %

6,084,181

7.7 %

2006

40,823

(-0.2) %

6,306,201

3.6 %

2007

42,997

5.3 %

6,713,886

6.5 %

2008

43,570

1.3 %

6,992,173

4.1 %

2009

42,993

(-1.3) %

6,901,276

(-1.3) %

2010

46,546

8.3 %

7,715,125

11.8 %

2011

47,637

2.3 %

7,930,506

2.8 %

2012

46,835

(-1.7) %

7,862,214

(-0.9) %

Richard Maslen

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