Aviation barometer records tepid total passenger traffic growth at ACSA airports

The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) released its 'Aviation Barometer: Quarter 1/January 2017 - March 2017' report on Tuesday. This is the latest in the company’s quarterly reports on passenger flows through its nine airports. “Overall passenger growth in the first quarter of 2017 was subdued,” stated the report, “with total arrivals up by a marginal 0.8% and departures increasing by 1.3%.” All the figures are in comparison to the first quarter of last year. ACSA subdivides the passenger traffic through its airports into domestic – flying to and from other airports in South Africa, including those not owned by the company; regional – flying to and from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland; and international – flying to and from everywhere else in the world. It was international traffic that was, by far, the strongest sector in terms of growth, and domestic the weakest.