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O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)

Johannesburg, South Africa · ICAO FAOR · IATA JNB

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O.R. Tambo International Airport (FAOR)03L21R03R21L
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 19 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
ICAO code
FAOR
IATA code
JNB
Elevation
5,558 ft
Longest runway
14,495 ft (03L/21R)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
-26.1401, 28.2468

About FAOR

O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB) is a large airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the ICAO code FAOR. Its two runways are 03L/21R and 03R/21L. The longer one, 03L/21R, is 14,495 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 41 gates, 336 taxiway segments, 28 aprons and 2 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 76 airlines have 1,888 routes through FAOR. Its most frequent links are Cape Town (CPT), Durban (DUR) and Gqeberha (PLZ).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
03L / 21R14,495 ft200 ftHardLit
03R / 21L11,155 ft197 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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.

Airlines flying here

  • South African SAA302 routes
  • British BAW88 routes
  • Qatar QTR47 routes
  • Turkish THY23 routes
  • Cargolux CLX21 routes
  • United UAL20 routes
  • Emirates UAE19 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: SFR, LNK, CAW, GBB, KEM, MNO, FJW, MPH.

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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.