Cape Town International Airport FACT / CPT
Cape Town's airport, 25 minutes from the V&A Waterfront and the CBD and 45 from the Winelands, with three FBOs on the general-aviation side and 24-hour CIQ. Summer season (December–February) brings heavy demand and strong south-easterly winds; helicopter transfers reach the Atlantic seaboard estates.
10,502 ft
Longest runway
25 min
Drive to Cape Town
3
FBOs / handlers
151 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- H24
- 24-hour operations
- Yes
- Customs & immigration
- Yes
- Prior permission (PPR)
- No
- Slot coordination
- No
- Noise curfew
- No
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel
- Jet A-1
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 20 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Any size including widebody VIP.
- Website
- www.airports.co.za
Private terminals (FBOs)
- ExecuJet Cape Town
- Signature Flight Support Cape Town
- Swissport Executive Aviation
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 10,502 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- Boeing Business Jets BBJ 787-8 9,800 ft
- Boeing Business Jets BBJ 737-8 (MAX 8) 7,500 ft
- Boeing Business Jets BBJ 737-7 (MAX 7) 5,900 ft
- Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ319neo 6,300 ft
- Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ320neo 6,800 ft
- Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ TwoTwenty 6,200 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- Everything in our database can operate here.