Main Terminal
A central terminal building holds all check-in desks and links the international area on the north side with the domestic area on the south side. Departures are on the upper level and arrivals on the lower level.
Cape Town International Airport (CPT) is the main airport of Cape Town, in South Africa's Western Cape. It handled a record 11.1 million passengers in 2025, of whom 3.3 million were international.
Airlink, FlySafair, South African Airways, CemAir and LIFT fly to Johannesburg, Durban, George and other South African cities, and Airlink adds regional routes to Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Long-haul airlines include Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, British Airways, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, with seasonal flights from Air France, Condor, Edelweiss and Virgin Atlantic.
A single central terminal building links the domestic and international areas, with departures upstairs and arrivals downstairs. The airport is run by Airports Company South Africa and has a main runway of 3,201 m.
The airport lies about 20 km east of the city center, with a direct link along the N2 freeway. From here most travelers head to the City Bowl, the V&A Waterfront, the Atlantic Seaboard and Camps Bay, Stellenbosch and the Cape Winelands, or along the coast toward the Garden Route.