Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport

Travel Guide Africa South Africa Gauteng Johannesburg Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport

Introduction

Johannesburg is served by the largest and busiest airport in South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport (JNB). The airport is also an important gateway (or hub) for international air travel to and from the rest of Southern Africa.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

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Getting there and away

Car: The airport is easily accessible by car and it is located in northeast Johannesburg on the R24 Airport Freeway, which can be accessed by the N3 Eastern Bypass and the R21 highway.
Rail: the airport is currently accessible by the Gautrain, which travels to Sandton. Extensions of this line will continue into Johannesburg and further towards Pretoria.
Bus: several bus lines operate to and from the airport, but services are not always frequent or safe. Use the better shuttle buses provided by some airlines or take a taxi.

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Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

There are two terminals (A and B) and for more information about airlines also see the list of airlines or the details about travelling with budget airlines.

Terminal A

1Time - Livingstone, Zanzibar
Afriqiyah Airways - Tripoli
Air Austral - St. Denis de la Réunion
Air Botswana - Gaborone, Maun, Kasane, Francistown
Air France - Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Airlink - Antananarivo, Beira, Bulawayo, Harare, Lusaka, Manzini, Maseru, Ndola, Pemba
Air Madagascar - Antananarivo, Fort Dauphin
Air Malawi - Blantyre, Lilongwe
Air Mauritius - Mauritius
Air Namibia - Accra, Lusaka, Windhoek
Air Seychelles - Mahé, Cape Town
Air Zimbabwe - Bulawayo, Harare
Arik Air - Lagos
Bellview Airlines - Lagos
British Airways - London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by Comair - Harare, Livingstone, Mauritius, Victoria Falls, Windhoek
Cathay Pacific Airways - Hong Kong
Delta Air Lines - Atlanta
EgyptAir - Cairo
El Al - Tel Aviv
Emirates - Dubai
Ethiopian Airlines - Addis Ababa
Etihad Airways - Abu Dhabi
Fly Kumba - Bulawayo
Gabon Airlines - Libreville, Pointe Noire
Hewa Bora Airways - Kinshasa, Lubumbashi
Iberia - Madrid
Interair South Africa - Brazzaville, Bamako, Cotonou, Ponte-Noire, St-Denis de la Reunion
Interlink Airlines - Bujumbura
Jet Airways - Mumbai
Kenya Airways - Nairobi
KLM - Amsterdam
Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique - Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Pemba, Quelimane, Tete, Vilanculos
Lufthansa - Frankfurt
Malaysia Airlines - Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Kuala Lumpur
Pelican Air Services - Vilanculos
Phoebus Apollo Aviation - Lubumbashi
Qantas Airways - Sydney
Qatar Airways - Doha
Royal Air Maroc - Casablanca
RwandAir - Kigali
Saudi Arabian Airlines - Jeddah
Singapore Airlines - Singapore
South African Express - Gaborone, Lubumbashi, Walvis Bay, Windhoek
Swiss International Air Lines - Zürich
TAAG Angola Airlines - Luanda
TAP Portugal - Lisbon, Maputo
TTA Airlink - Maputo
Thai Airways International - Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Turkish Airlines - Istanbul-Atatürk
V Australia - Melbourne
Virgin Atlantic Airways - London-Heathrow
Zambezi Airlines - Harare, Lusaka, Ndola

Terminal B

1Time - Cape Town, Durban, East London, George, Port Elizabeth
Airlink - George, Margate, Mafikeng, Mala Mala, Nelspruit, Phalaborwa, Pietermaritzburg, Polokwane, Umtata, Upington
British Airways operated by Comair - Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth
Interlink Airlines - Cape Town, Durban
Kulula.com - Cape Town, Durban, George, Port Elizabeth
Mango - Cape Town, Durban
Pelican Air Services - Nelspruit
South African Airways - Cape Town, Durban, East London, Gaborone, Port Elizabeth, Accra, Blantyre, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Harare, Hong Kong, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lilongwe, Livingstone, London-Heathrow, Luanda, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Maputo, Mauritius, Mumbai, Munich, Nairobi, New York–JFK, Perth, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Victoria Falls, Washington-Dulles, Windhoek
South African Express - Bloemfontein, Durban, East London, George, Hoedspruit, Kimberley, Nelspruit, Richard's Bay