{"id":119345,"date":"2016-04-10T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=119345"},"modified":"2016-04-08T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:30:44","slug":"these-are-the-best-airports-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/119345\/these-are-the-best-airports-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best airports in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2016 edition of the World Airport Awards has revealed which South African airport has been rated the top flight hub in the country.<\/p>\n

Cape Town International Airport has reclaimed the top spot in the country, ranked 22nd overall (up from 26th in 2015), pushing past Joburg’s OR Tambo which held the number one position for the past two years.<\/p>\n

OR Tambo was ranked 30th, overall, down from 24th in 2015.<\/p>\n

Cape Town was ranked the best airport in the world for the 5-10 million passenger per year category; OR Tambo ranked 5th in the 10-20 million passenger per year category; and durban ranked top of the under 5 million passenger per year category.<\/p>\n

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OR Tambo International Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

Regionally, South Africa again dominated Africa’s airports, with six of the top 10 positions.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nAirport<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nCape Town International Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nOR Tambo International Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nKing Shaka International Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport<\/td>\nMauritius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nEast London Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nPort Elizabeth Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nCairo International Airport<\/td>\nEgypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nBloemfontein Airport<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nSeychelles International Airport<\/td>\nSeychelles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nMarrakesh Menara Airport<\/td>\nMorocco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport retained the top spot as best airport in the world, followed by South Korea\u2019s Incheon International, which remains in second spot.<\/p>\n

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Singapore Changi Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singapore

Singapore Changi Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singapore

Singapore Changi Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Singapore

Singapore Changi Airport<\/p><\/div>\n

The Awards are based on 13.25 million airport survey questionnaires completed by 106 different nationalities of airline customers during the survey period. The survey operated from June 2015 to February 2016, covering 550 airports worldwide.<\/p>\n

The top 15\u00a0airports in the world<\/h3>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nAirport<\/th>\nCountry<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nChangi International Airport<\/td>\nSingapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nIncheon International Airport<\/td>\nSouth Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMunich Airport<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nTokyo International Haneda Airport<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHong Kong International Airport<\/td>\nHong Kong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nCh\u016bbu Centrair International Airport<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nZurich Airport<\/td>\nSwitzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nHeathrow International Airport<\/td>\nLondon, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nKansai International Airport<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nDoha Hamed Airport<\/td>\nQatar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nNarita International Airport<\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nFrankfurt Airport<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nAmsterdam Schiphol Inter<\/td>\nNetherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nVancouver Airport<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nHelsinki-Vantaa Airport<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on airports<\/h3>\n

The busiest airports in the world in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is Africa\u2019s best airport<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The most \u201csleep-friendly\u201d airports in Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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