FAUT - Mthatha Airport Upgrade South Africa v2

Mthatha Airport is an airport serving Mthatha, a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The airport was previously named K. D. Matanzima Airport after Kaiser Matanzima, a president of the former Transkei.n an initial phase of upgrades to the airport to improve infrastructure, an expanded 14/32 runway was completed in May 2013, allowing larger aircraft to service the airport. On 30 May 2013, an aircraft operated by SA Airlink was the first to land on the expanded runway. The new runway cost R490 million to complete.