Airport map and runways
East London, South Africa · ICAO FAEL · IATA ELS
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King Phalo Airport (ELS) is a large airport in East London, South Africa, with the ICAO code FAEL. Its two runways are 11/29 and 06/24. The longer one, 11/29, is 6,362 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 60 taxiway segments, 5 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 6 airlines have 78 routes through FAEL. Its most frequent links are Johannesburg (JNB), Cape Town (CPT) and Durban (DUR).
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 6,362 ft | 150 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 06 / 24 | 5,200 ft | 150 ft | Hard | Lit |
Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.
Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.
Also flying here, shown by airline code: SFR, CAW, LNK, KEM.
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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.
