Cape Town International Airport (CPT)
A working profile of Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Cape Town International Airport
- Serves: Cape Town, South Africa
- Coordinates: -33.9648, 18.6017
- Elevation: 151 ft
- Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg
Cape Town International Airport sits inside the air network of South Africa. It shows 44 distinct scheduled departures across 23 destinations and 19 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from CPT
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | CPT→JNB | 9 |
| DUR | King Shaka International Airport | Durban | South Africa | CPT→DUR | 4 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | CPT→LHR | 3 |
| PLZ | Port Elizabeth Airport | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | CPT→PLZ | 3 |
| HLA | Lanseria Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | CPT→HLA | 3 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | CPT→AMS | 2 |
| DXB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | CPT→DXB | 2 |
| BFN | Bram Fischer International Airport | Bloemfontein | South Africa | CPT→BFN | 2 |
| WDH | Hosea Kutako International Airport | Windhoek | Namibia | CPT→WDH | 2 |
| PBZ | Plettenberg Bay Airport | Plettenberg Bay | South Africa | CPT→PBZ | 1 |
| GBE | Sir Seretse Khama International Airport | Gaberone | Botswana | CPT→GBE | 1 |
| MUB | Maun Airport | Maun | Botswana | CPT→MUB | 1 |
| LAD | Quatro de Fevereiro Airport | Luanda | Angola | CPT→LAD | 1 |
| MRU | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport | Plaisance | Mauritius | CPT→MRU | 1 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | CPT→DOH | 1 |
| ELS | Ben Schoeman Airport | East London | South Africa | CPT→ELS | 1 |
| GRJ | George Airport | George | South Africa | CPT→GRJ | 1 |
| HDS | Hoedspruit Air Force Base Airport | Hoedspruit | South Africa | CPT→HDS | 1 |
| KIM | Kimberley Airport | Kimberley | South Africa | CPT→KIM | 1 |
| MPM | Maputo Airport | Maputo | Mozambique | CPT→MPM | 1 |
| MQP | Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport | Mpumalanga | South Africa | CPT→MQP | 1 |
| UTN | Pierre Van Ryneveld Airport | Upington | South Africa | CPT→UTN | 1 |
| WVB | Walvis Bay Airport | Walvis Bay | Namibia | CPT→WVB | 1 |
Airlines operating at CPT
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from CPT |
|---|---|---|---|
| SA | South African Airways | South Africa | 15 |
| JE | Mango | South Africa | 5 |
| BA | British Airways | United Kingdom | 4 |
| MN | Comair | South Africa | 3 |
| BP | Air Botswana | Botswana | 2 |
| QR | Qatar Airways | Qatar | 2 |
| 5Z | VivaColombia | Colombia | 1 |
| AA | American Airlines | United States | 1 |
| AZ | Alitalia | Italy | 1 |
| DT | TAAG Angola Airlines | Angola | 1 |
| EK | Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| IB | Iberia Airlines | Spain | 1 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 1 |
| MK | Air Mauritius | Mauritius | 1 |
| OZ | Asiana Airlines | Republic of Korea | 1 |
| SQ | Singapore Airlines Cargo | Singapore | 1 |
| SW | Air Namibia | Namibia | 1 |
| TK | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 1 |
| VA | Virgin Australia | Australia | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into CPT typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JNB | OR Tambo International Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 9 |
| DUR | King Shaka International Airport | Durban | South Africa | 4 |
| PLZ | Port Elizabeth Airport | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | 3 |
| HLA | Lanseria Airport | Johannesburg | South Africa | 3 |
| LHR | London Heathrow Airport | London | United Kingdom | 2 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2 |
| DXB | Dubai International Airport | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| BFN | Bram Fischer International Airport | Bloemfontein | South Africa | 2 |
| WDH | Hosea Kutako International Airport | Windhoek | Namibia | 2 |
| PBZ | Plettenberg Bay Airport | Plettenberg Bay | South Africa | 1 |
| GBE | Sir Seretse Khama International Airport | Gaberone | Botswana | 1 |
| MUB | Maun Airport | Maun | Botswana | 1 |
| LAD | Quatro de Fevereiro Airport | Luanda | Angola | 1 |
| MRU | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport | Plaisance | Mauritius | 1 |
| ELS | Ben Schoeman Airport | East London | South Africa | 1 |
| GRJ | George Airport | George | South Africa | 1 |
| HDS | Hoedspruit Air Force Base Airport | Hoedspruit | South Africa | 1 |
| KIM | Kimberley Airport | Kimberley | South Africa | 1 |
| MPM | Maputo Airport | Maputo | Mozambique | 1 |
| MQP | Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport | Mpumalanga | South Africa | 1 |
| UTN | Pierre Van Ryneveld Airport | Upington | South Africa | 1 |
| WVB | Walvis Bay Airport | Walvis Bay | Namibia | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from CPT on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list CPT to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat CPT as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.