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Cape Town International in 2025: most passengers were flying domestic
7.8million passengers Domestic · Highest
About seven in ten of the airport's record 11.1 million passengers were on domestic flights.
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Method and sources
Each bar is the number of two-way passenger movements at Cape Town International Airport in 2025, in millions, as reported in the article.
Domestic: roughly 7.8 million.
International: roughly 3.3 million.
The article gives the 2025 total as a record 11,113,490 passengers, with each group up about 7% on the year before. The article's own chart also draws that total (11.1 million) as a third bar; it is left out here because it is the sum of the other two.
The article gives the year only, so the period is the 2025 calendar year.
Sources: the article credits ACSA, Wesgro and Cape Town Air Access, and links to Airports Company South Africa (https://www.airports.co.za/)
Figures as published in our article on fake Uber drivers at South African airports (last updated 28 May 2026): ACSA, Wesgro and Cape Town Air Access passenger statistics for 2025.
Chart updated · 14 Sep 2026. The observation dates above describe the data, not today’s conditions.
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