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The R24 intersects with the R21 near the airport and with the O. R. Tambo Airport Highway. This highway goes through the airport terminals, separating them from the parking bays, but it branches off into two directions: "departures" and "arrivals", and then it re-branches into the intersection.
Rank Airport Location Code (IATA/ICAO) Total passengers Rank change % change 1. O. R. Tambo International Airport: Johannesburg, Gauteng: JNB/FAOR: 18,621,259: 2.01% 2. Cape Town International Airport
O.R. Tambo International Airport 26°08′01″S 028°14′32″E / 26.13361°S 28.24222°E / -26.13361; 28.24222 ( OR Tambo International 5,558
This is a list of the busiest airports in Africa, ranked by total passengers per year, which includes arrival, departure and transit passengers. In December 2024, it was reported that Ethiopia will be constructing a new airport worth US$6 billion near its capital Addis Ababa.
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The airport would initially be able to cope with 450 departing and 400 incoming passengers per hour. It is believed that there is a market for passenger service, mainly Pretoria residents that do not wish to commute to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg; an estimated 25%-30% of passengers using O.R. Tambo are Pretoria residents.
The airport replaced Cape Town's previous airport, Wingfield Aerodrome. Originally named Bellville Airport due to its proximity to the town of the same name, it initially served as a domestic airport. Then, at the request of the Bellville Federation of Taxpayers, the airport was renamed after the then South African prime minister.
While the airport served the domestic market well, the airport suffered from low international passenger numbers and a runway that was too short for a fully laden Boeing 747 to take off. [2] Due to the short runway and the hub and spoke policy that was adopted in the 1990s (favouring OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg ), Durban lost ...