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O. R. Tambo International Airport has two parallel runways adjacent to the airport's terminal buildings. There used to be a third runway, 09/27, but it was closed and became taxiway Juliet. Another decommissioned runway was 14/32 (which crossed runways 03L/21R and 03R/21L); it was converted into taxiway Echo.
O. R. Tambo International Airport (Africa's busiest airport) is located in Kempton Park. In 1952, the airport, then known as Jan Smuts International Airport, [5] [6] was built on land next to the community, and opened in 1953. [5] The airport's name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s and then to OR Tambo ...
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
South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier of South Africa. [4] Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and operates a hub-and-spoke network, serving 13 destinations in Africa and two intercontinental destinations to Perth, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil. [5]
On 25 March 2006 gunmen armed with AK-47s stole bags containing several million US dollars at O.R. Tambo International Airport. Three ACSA employees and six other individuals were arrested and appeared in court in connection with the heist.
The airline was founded as Comair Charters (Natal) [2] and became branded as Federal Air (Fedair) in 1993. It later acquired and absorbed Pelican Air Services to provide scheduled air shuttle services in Southern Africa and to link remote bush lodges with Johannesburg.
Mango Airlines SOC Ltd, trading as Mango, was a South African low-cost airline based at O. R. Tambo International Airport, [1] and a subsidiary of South African Airways.Since July 2021, the airline had been grounded, as funding for its business rescue was subject to a dispute. [2]
Kulula.com (stylized as kulula.com) and commonly referred to as Kulula was a South African low-cost airline, operating on major domestic routes from O. R. Tambo International Airport and Lanseria International Airport, both serving the city of Johannesburg. [1]