Big expansion plans for Cape Winelands Airport as it seeks to compete with Cape Town International
South Africa's state airport operator, ACSA, is occasionally accused - rightly or wrongly - of not being able to complete and manage the infrastructure that is required to keep the country going economically.
As a consequence, the private sector does rise to the challenge, and two of the privately managed airports are mentioned in this report: at Lanseria, north of Johannesburg, and in the Kruger National Park.
Now an announcement has been made about a major overhaul of a general aviation facility in the Cape Town metropolitan area to convert it into a secondary level commercial airport capable of handling five million passengers per annum, and taking 25% of the market, by 2050.
That is an ambitious target, but the owners have put forward a credible pitch, even if it is missing the financial backing for a USD380 million scheme so far.
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