SEE | New multibillion-rand airport sets sights on competing with Cape Town International

17 May

Na'ilah Ebrahim

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Managing director of private airport group rsa.Aero, Nick Ferguson speaks to potential investors and tenants for the Cape Winelands Airport on Thursday. (News24/Na'ilah Ebrahim)

Plans for the Cape Town Winelands Airport outside Durbanville are progressing after South African entrepreneur and managing director of rsa.AERO Nick Ferguson announced that the private airport group had signed a 15-year agreement with German airline Lufthansa Group.

Ferguson said the airport is set to become a "destination alternate" airport for travellers in Cape Town, rivalling Cape Town International in capacity and accommodating more air traffic.

Plans for the Winelands airport include an R7-billion expansion for a Code F runway, with a length of 3 500m, to accommodate aircraft as big as an Airbus A380. This aircraft cannot be accommodated at Cape Town International.

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