📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Cape Winelands Airport Moves Closer to Becoming a Reality
The expanded Cape Winelands Airport on the periphery of Durbanville, move closer to becoming reality for domestic and international flights, seems at last to really be coming about. Under the R7 billion investment in Berg River maintained level (RML) will see all current airport facilities completely renovated. After completion, designated as Code F – meeting requirements for landing and take-off of largest passenger airliners like Airbus A380. The extension plan includes a new boutique terminal building, cargo facilities and fuel-storage buildings built on both sides of the reoriented runway (3.5 kilometers long), together with future commercial structures such as offices and hotels to be located just outside the airport’s upper boundary line. Cape Winelands Airport is poised to open its doors in 2027. Nick Ferguson, managing director of holding company and private developer RSA.Aero south Africa said the project has been years in the making. In 2025, construction of the Cape Winelands Airport will begin. it’s on the urban edge in among everything at sea level with a 400-ft elevation that puts it out of the winter fog band. The five kilometers of Joostenbergvlakte was enough to cover down runway for them. With a city growing like crazy, cut off from the North; it’s absolutely essential to build another airport as well. Passengers determine which airline is going and there are some demands in this area here all up into West Coast.
The CapeWinelands Airport was constructed in 1943 about 13 km. northeast of Durbanville. South African Air Force designation–Fisantekraal airfield. During WWII it was used to operate Lockheed Ventura bombers which defended shipping around the Cape of Good Hope. The biggest aeroplane to land on their ever is a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, better known as Flossie.
