King Shaka International Airport abbreviated KSIA, is the primary airport serving Durban, South Africa. Located in La Mercy, KwaZulu-Natal, approximately 35 km (22 mi) north of the city centre of Durban, it opened its doors to passengers on 1 May 2010, just over a month before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It replaced Durban International Airport (ICAO: FADN) and uses the same IATA airport code.
The airport forms part of the Dube TradePort, which will additionally consist of a trade zone linked to the airport's cargo terminal, facilities to support the airport such as nearby offices and transit accommodation for tourists, an integrated agricultural export zone, and an IT platform
The largest aircraft KSIA currently has scheduled services for is the Boeing 777-300ER, with Emirates operating Dubai–Durban, despite the fact that KSIA's runway length and terminal were designed to theoretically handle regular large airliners. In September 2015, during the World Routes Conference which was held in Durban (the first time on African soil), Turkish Airlines announced a new international service to Istanbul and Qatar Airways announced the commencement of service to Doha in December of that year.
On 27 January 2014 the world's largest passenger aircraft, an Airbus A380-800 of British Airways landed at KSIA becoming the first A380 to do so. The aircraft was being used for training and operated many flights in and out of the airport until 4 February 2014. The aircraft also returned for further pilot training between 29 August and 1 September the same year.
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Enjoy the software, my only complaint is the jetways, they should be animated. I have sent a request to the developer, but have not received any answer as of yet.
In this day and age, all major airports should come with animated jetbridges. That's really the only issue I have with this product. I've been a big fan of Gaffer Sims but this missing component makes it a very frustrating airport to use.
My Home Town!!
Please fix the ils's. they seem off for some aircrafts like Concorde, sometimes the FBW32NX works. but most addons read the below
heading="37" frequency="111.300" ident="TNI
heading="217" frequency="109.700" ident="TGI"
those are incorrect.
Heading should be
heading="62" frequency="111.300" ident="TNI
heading="242" frequency="109.700" ident="TGI"
Thank you.
Jetway does not connect correctly to the aircraft. Sometimes I am lucky when departing it connects correctly. A320neo
When shutting down engines it immediately goes out to Main Menu and have to go back to do rest of shutdown procedure.
The rest of the Airport looks very good. Very good work!
Very Good work on King Shaka airport.
Price is fair i would prefer it a little cheaper but do understand, the efforts that goes into a project like this.
Would love see more details eg front of airport and jetways.
Other then that really worth the money.