Top 10 best and worst airports in Africa… JKIA has been beaten by Kigali International Airport in Rwanda

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is the biggest airport in East and Central Africa, but in terms of efficiency, customer friendly and clean experience to travelers, Kigali International Airport in Rwanda is the best in the region.

The annual survey of the best and worst airports conducted by Sleeping In Airports has ranked South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport as the best airport in Africa for the year 2016.

Cape Town International Airport

The best and worst African airports are differentiated by their readiness to offer an efficient, customer friendly and clean experience with respect to the latter, considered to be repeated poor-timing offenders, with sickly security procedures and incompetent staff, operating in mini drones.

Rwanda’s Kigali International Airport in Kigali is the best airport in East Africa, it was ranked second in the continent.

Kigali International Airport

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is the second best airport in East Africa, it was ranked 9th in the continent.

New terminal at JKIA

See the full list below:

Best Airports in Africa 2016

1.Cape Town International Airport, South Africa (CPT)

2.Kigali International Airport, Rwanda (KGL)

3.Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (Port Louis) International Airport, Mauritius (MRU)

4.Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport, South Africa (JNB)

5.Algiers Houari Boumediene International Airport, Algeria (ALG)

6.Durban King Shaka International Airport, South Africa (DUR)

7.Rabat-Sale International Airport, Morocco (RBA)

8.Oujda Angads International Airport, Morocco (OUD)

9.Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya (NBO)

10.Cairo International Airport, Egypt (CAI)

 

Worst Airports in Africa 2016

1.Juba International Airport, South Sudan (JUB)

2.Port Harcourt International Airport, Nigeria (PHC)

3.Nouakchott International Airport, Mauritania (NKC)

4.Douala International Airport, Cameroon (DLA)

5.N’Djamena International Airport, Chad (NDJ)

6.Dar-es-Salaam Julius Nyerere International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)

7.Zanzibar Abeid Amani Karume International Airport, Tanzania (ZNZ)

8.Lomé–Tokoin Airport, Togo (LFW)

9.Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nigeria (LOS)

10.Marrakesh Menara Airport, Morocco (RAK)

 

 

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