King Phalo Airport

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King Phalo Airport
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator Airports Company South Africa
Serves East London, South Africa
Elevation  AMSL 436 ft / 133 m
Coordinates 33°02′06″S027°49′17″E / 33.03500°S 27.82139°E / -33.03500; 27.82139
Website www.airports.co.za/airports/King-Phalo-airport
Map
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FAEL
Location of airport in Eastern Cape province
Location of Eastern Cape in South Africa
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FAEL
FAEL (South Africa)
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FAEL
FAEL (Africa)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
11/291,9396,362Asphalt
06/241,5855,200Asphalt
Statistics (Jan-Dec 2019)
Passenger traffic930,929
Sources: South African AIP, [1] DAFIF [2] [3]

King Phalo Airport( IATA : ELS, ICAO : FAEL) (Afrikaans : Koning Phalo Internasionale Lughawe; formerly East London Airport (Afrikaans : Oos-Londen Lughawe) until 23 February 2021) [4] is an airport serving East London, a city in the Eastern Cape province on the southeast coast of South Africa.

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The airport handles between 20 and 30 flights daily, which bring 946,000 people to East London each year. Of these, about 540,000 are holidaymakers, mostly local, and about 15% are foreign tourists. In 2013, the airport served 658,363 passengers. In 2016, King Phalo Airport was voted the fastest growing airport in South Africa, having accomplished an almost 19% increase in traffic over a 12-month-period. [5] The airport welcomed over 806,000 passengers in 2016, beating the 679,000 that passed through East London in 2015. The second best performing airport for growth in 2014 was Kimberley, with its traffic growing by 11%. Overall the top airports of South Africa witnessed nearly 39.7 million passengers in 2016, up 5.3% on the year before.

History

The airport had an inauspicious beginning in 1927, when Lieut Colonel Alistair Miller asked the East London town council to help establish a municipal aerodrome at Woodbrook, west of the city.

Passenger flights were undertaken by two de Havilland Moth planes on Saturday afternoons and all day on Sundays, weather permitting. Flights could also be booked for weekdays, but only by special arrangement. In 1931 it took 11 hours to fly from Windhoek in Namibia to King Phalo Airport.

In 1944 a new airport was built at Collondale, about 2 km west of the present terminal building.

In 1965 the airport was again moved, this time to its present site, 9 km west of the city centre. Construction of the terminal buildings finished in 1966, and the airport was named after Ben Schoeman, the minister of transport at the time.

The airport was renamed in 1994. Since then, major alterations to the terminal building have been completed and a new first-floor office development for the airport management team has been added.

Infrastructure

Runways

King Phalo Airport has two asphalt runways: 11/29 is 1,939 by 46 meters and 06/24 is 1,585 by 46 meters.

NumberLengthWidthILSNotes
11/291,93946m
06/241,58546m

Terminals

Facilities

King Phalo Airport is at an elevation of 435 feet (133 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 11/29 is 1,939 by 46 metres (6,362 ft × 151 ft) and 06/24 is 1,585 by 46 metres (5,200 ft × 151 ft). [1]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Airlink Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo
CemAir Cape Town
FlySafair Cape Town, Durban, [6] Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
BidAir Cargo [7] Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo

Traffic statistics

Annual passenger traffic at ELS airport. See Wikidata query.
Annual passenger traffic [8]
YearPassengers % Change
2006664,824Increase2.svg19.2%
2007744,949Increase2.svg12.1%
2008715,206Decrease2.svg4.0%
2009675,980Decrease2.svg5.5%
2010671,895Decrease2.svg0.6%
2011681,741Increase2.svg1.5%
2012663,115Decrease2.svg2.7%
2013658,363Decrease2.svg0.7%
2014642,085Decrease2.svg2.5%
2015678,989Increase2.svg5.7%
2016806,437Increase2.svg18.8%
2017804,741Decrease2.svg0.2%

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References

  1. 1 2 "FAEL – EAST LONDON" (PDF). South African Civil Aviation Authority. 4 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Airport information for FAEL from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  3. ↑ Airport information for ELS at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ↑ "Two SA airports – and Port Elizabeth – just got official new names". BusinessInsider. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "East London is fastest growing airport in South Africa in 2016". anna.aero. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "FlySafair | FlySafair Launches New Routes". Archived from the original on 5 June 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  7. ↑ bidaircargo.com - Network Archived 1 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 13 January 2021
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