O. R. Tambo International Airport
Johannesburg, Pretoria
- IATAJNB
- ICAOFAOR
- Serves
- Johannesburg, Pretoria
- Operator
- Airports Company South Africa
- Owner
- Not recorded
- Opened
- 1952
- Elevation
- 5,558 ft (1,694 m)
- Runways
- 2 (longest 4,421 m)
- Airlines based here
- Airlink, CemAir, FlySafair, LIFT, South African Airways
- Website
- Not recorded
About the airport
O. R. Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAOR) is an international airport serving the twin cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. It is situated in Kempton Park, Gauteng. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel for South Africa and since 2020, it is Africa's second busiest airport, with a capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers annually. The airport serves as the hub for South African Airways. The airport was originally known as Jan Smuts International Airport, after the former South African Prime Minister. It was renamed Johannesburg International Airport in 1994, and subsequently on 27 October 2006 the airport was renamed after anti-apartheid politician Oliver Tambo (1917–1993). Its ICAO code was changed from FAJS to FAOR on 10 January 2013.
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.