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Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa · ICAO FAPE · IATA PLZ
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Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport (PLZ) is a large airport in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), South Africa, with the ICAO code FAPE. Its two runways are 08/26 and 17/35. The longer one, 08/26, is 7,087 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 6 gates, 88 taxiway segments, 7 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 9 airlines have 177 routes through FAPE. Its most frequent links are Johannesburg (JNB), Cape Town (CPT) and Durban (DUR).
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 7,087 ft | 151 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 17 / 35 | 5,502 ft | 151 ft | Hard | Lit |
Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.
Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.
Also flying here, shown by airline code: SFR, LNK, CAW, BRH, KEM, FSK, MNO.
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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.
