Sad to say, but since then the operations at the airport slowly deteriorated. There are no more scheduled flights to Pilanesberg. There can be several reasons for the declining number of passengers at the airport: general state of the economy, more self-drive visitors, more casinos in rest of South Africa, I don't know what else. The North West provincial government took over the management of the airport in 2011.
During our visit there on a Thursday morning, there were no flight activities. Staff at the check-in counters were lying down, trying to sleep. Others were loitering around, looking bored.
The Million Dollar Golf Challenge event is happening soon. Hopefully this will wake every one up again and passengers will stream into this beautiful part of South Africa.
