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TOP 20 of the African airports

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Casablanca Airport grew a lot during these recent years because of Royal Air Maroc and some Low Cost companies (EasyJet, Jet4you, Atlas-blue,...), and a new terminal was just opened last year there. The capacity today is 11 millions PAX

Lagos has a great potential of development, but it still need a big Nigerian airline company like Royal Air Maroc in Morocco or Kenya Airways in Kenya... Virgin Nigeria Airways is still too small comparing to big African airlines companies
 
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Lagos's position and traffic numbers are extremely low, especially for a city of 15 million people!!! The likes of Nairobi, Dakar and Algiers is also far to low. What's needed here is domestic traffic, thats what really pushes up the numbers. Nigeria or any Sub Saharan country ( minus SA) lack good domestic connectivity. Beyond services from the the major city to smaller ones, but inter regional services.
 
#12 ·
Your right concerning international airports like Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Luxour and Djerba. But Joburg is the financial and business capital of Africa as well as it's airline hub. South African cities like Cape Town and Durban get most of their traffic within South Africa. Which is why I consistently insist for a greater development of Africa's domestic feed. This can only come when economic growth benefits the masses and that more people can afford to travel. Not just foreigners or wealthy locals who travel/live abroad. Why is it you never hear of low cost carriers in Sub Saharan Africa but it's booming in India?
 
#13 ·
Also note how Luanda, capital of Africa's largest oil producer and one of the world's fastest growing economy is not even in the top 20!! This brings up the point of poor airport management, Angola's civil aviation authorities are extremely reluctant to hand out frequencies to international carries. Which is why apart from TAP their isn't a single European carrier that has a daily service to Luanda, instead most only have 1 or 2 weekly services. This of course is due to government ownership of TAAG and this is a perfect way to limit competition. Liberalization of treaties is also needed in certain African countries, Angola more so than anyone else, since it makes HUGE money for any carrier that serves it.
 
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^^ Cape Town does get a tremendous domestic feed. But, suffers from the same ills Luanda does, thus most air-travelers must arrive via Jo'burg. ACSA (Airports Company South Africa) owns all airports in the country and SAA is government owned. Cape Town too is hampered by ACSA/SAA not allowing more international carriers landing rights. It truly is sad: To protect one government-owned company and one "perceived hub", you screw your tourism, int'l freight and business travel sectors of the economy!
 
#33 ·
I'm afraid those wikipedia figures are very inaccurate. I very much doubt Addis Ababa has seen such huge growth and the figures for Algiers don't match up either. Here's the top 20 as things currently stand. The figures in black are for 2008 and the ones in red are 2007 as final official figures for 2008 haven't been released.


1 Johannesburg 18.50 million -4.3%
2 Cairo 14.36 14.2%
3 Cape Town 8.08 -2.9%
4 Sharm el Sheikh 7.76 20.8%
5 Hurghada 6.74 13.4%
6 Casablanca 6.21 6.0%
7 Lagos 5.14 23.5%
8 Nairobi 4.86
9 Durban 4.46 -7.1%
10 Monastir 4.28
11 Tunis 3.95
12 Algiers 3.80
13 Marrakech 3.07 1.6%
14 Addis Ababa 2.84
15 Tripoli 2.60
16 Mauritius 2.56
17 Jerba 2.45
18 Abuja 2.20
19 Luxor 2.17 9.7%
20 Dakar 2.10
 
#34 · (Edited)
on the french version of wikipedia. we can see:

1 Johannesburg 19 457 498 ▲9,3%
2 Cairo 12 577 524 ▲16,7%
3 Cape Town 8 426 618 ▲12,1%
4 Sharm el Sheikh 6 424 851 ▲27,0%
5 Hurghada 5 947 616 ▲23,0%
6 Casablanca 5 858 192 ▲15,5%
7 Nairobi 4 861 706 ▲ 9,3%
8 Durban 4 792 553 ▲ 12,6%
9 Algiers 4 775 000 ▲ 9,3%
10 Lagos 4 450 000 ▲ 15,8%
11 Monastir 4 279 802 ▲ 1,9%
12 Tunis 3 930 661 ▲ 7,7%
13 Marrakech 3 072 421 ▲15,2%
14 Addis Abeba 2 837 543 ▲24,0%

15 Tripoli 2.60
16 Mauritius 2.56
17 Jerba 2.45
18 Abuja 2.20
19 Luxor 2.17 9.7%
20 Dakar 2.10

i think it's the most just

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aéroports_africains_classés_par_le_nombre_de_passagers
 
#38 ·
those french numbers are wrong just a quick glance at 9,10,and 11 and i could tell it was wrong. i know lagos has passes 5 million passenegers and it shows it around 4.4 million. the english version looks more accurate to me.
 
#39 ·
•The domestic wing of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos recorded a 40% increase while the international wing only received 8% more visitors during 2008. According to the statistics 2,794,919 passengers went through the airport on domestic routes in 2008, while 2,341,778 international passengers passed through.
Reference

qymekkam, 5,136,697 passengers went through lagos in 2008, The english looks more accurate to me.
 
#40 ·
This is from Africa"s Aviation forum so I think it should be reliable, these are 2006 numbers.

http://africaspotter.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=800

1... Johannesburg 16,266,706... 11.1%
2... Cairo 10,249,907... 3.7%
3... Cape Town 6,914,353... 9.8%
4... Sharm el Sheikh 4,793,652... -2.4%
5... Casablanca 4,625,908... 14.5%
6... Hurghada 4,584,847... -1.5%
7... Nairobi 4,376,667... 9.4%
8... Monastir 4,114,390... 8.8%
9... Lagos 3,794,964... -1.0%
10. Durban 3,764,480... 14.9%
11. Tunis 3,705,549... 4.9%
12. Algiers 3,464,741... 2.5%
13. Jerba 2,416,597... 2.9%
14. Marrakech 2,358,817... 24.6%
15. Mauritius 2,175,376... 3.9%
16. Luxor 2,047,822... -10.9%
17. Abuja 1,985,142... -9.1%
18. Addis Ababa 1,962,012... 14.8%
19. St Denis 1,474,269... -7.2%
20. Port Elizabeth 1,326,109... 16.9%
21. Agadir 1,263,286... 1.5%
22. Dar es Salaam 1,142,359... 7.5%
23. Mombasa 1,119,135... 7.6%
24. Luanda 1,010,351... 35.7%
25. Port Harcourt 989,977... 19.8%
 
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