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Top 20 airports in South Africa by passenger movements Rank Airport Location Code (IATA/ICAO) Total passengers [i] Notes 1: O. R. Tambo International Airport: Johannesburg, Gauteng: JNB/FAOR: 15,622,216 [4] 2: Cape Town International Airport: Cape Town, Western Cape: CPT/FACT: 8,407,751 [5] 3: King Shaka International Airport: Durban, KwaZulu ...
Grand Central Airport (IATA: GCJ, ICAO: FAGC) is a small privately owned airfield which is open to public air traffic. It is located in Midrand, halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa. Prior permission to land at Grand Central is not required for light aircraft pilots; a radio call is sufficient.
Lanseria International Airport (IATA: HLA, ICAO: FALA) is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-300 and the airport was created to ease traffic congestion at OR Tambo International Airport .
Of those passengers, 9.2 million were international and 11 million domestic, with the remainder being classified as "regional" or "unscheduled". 220,644 aircraft traffic movements were recorded; the majority being domestic services. O. R. Tambo International Airport is the busiest airport in South Africa.
The international airport plays a dominant role in the local economy. Several airline and other aviation related companies are headquartered in Kempton Park. South African Airways, [10] [11] the flag carrier of South Africa, and subsidiary South African Express [12] have their head offices in Kempton Park.
With the fall of apartheid in the early 1990s, ownership of the airport was transferred from the state to the newly formed Airports Company South Africa, [5] and the airport was renamed to the politically neutral Cape Town International Airport. [6] South African Airways launched a route to Miami in December 1992. [7]
Rand Airport (IATA: QRA, ICAO: FAGM) is an airport in Germiston, South Africa. It was constructed in the 1920s as the main airport for Johannesburg , but the city outgrew it and replaced the airport with Palmietfontein Airport in 1948 (itself replaced by Jan Smuts International Airport in 1952).