Travel: Flights to Johannesburg

OR Tambo Airport

OR Tambo International Airport (previously known as Johannesburg International Airport) is the major airport of South Africa and has flights to many destinations on all continents.

Domestic destinations within South Africa include:

• Bloemfontein
• Cape Town
• Durban
• East London
• Kimberley
• Port Elizabeth
• Upington

and many other local destinations. Flights from most of the important cities in Africa and worldwide take place.

Some of the local airlines are South African Airways, British Airways (Comair), Nationwide and low-cost carriers 1Time and Kulula.com. South African Airways operates a worldwide network from OR Tambo International Airport.

There are daily flights to and from London, Paris, New York and other major international destinations.

There are a lot of building works currently going on at the airport, including a new high speed train link to johannesburg. The first section to Sandton in Johannesburg is due to be completed before the World Cup in 2010.

For anyone who arrives and looks lost there are a large number of official and unofficial porters in the arrivals halls and outside the terminals in the area connecting the International Terminal and the Domestic Terminal. The official porters have bright orange uniforms and navy-blue shirts, and carry ACSA permits. They work exclusively for tips: a general guide is to give R5 (five South African rands) a bag.

Others

Other airports, such as Lanseria Airport or Rand Airport are preferred by charter operators and small airlines. There are regular flights from Lanseria to Cape Town.

See also Discount airlines in Africa and Air travel in South Africa.

N.B: A direct flight from Bangkok to Johannesburg operated by Thai Airways was introduced in late 2006.