Future Development
Upington Airport’s uncommonly long runway and its strategically advantageous location, close to South Africa’s northern borders, makes it ideally placed to serve the African continent. For this reason the airport is to be developed into a major cargo hub that will serve sub-Saharan Africa directly from South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
As well as improvements to the airport itself, ACSA will be preparing land around the airport for development to support the inevitable boost to the local economy.
It was also a NASA Southern Hemisphere Spacecraft landing site.
Planning is also under way at Upington Airport to construct a facility for the long-term parking of mothballed aircraft.
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