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Johannesburg International Airport located in Johannesburg, South Africa is one of the largest airports in the southern area of the African continent. It was renamed from "Jan Smuts International Airport" in the late 1990s.
The airport overtook Cairo in 1996 as the busiest aiport in Africa, and is the second-busiest airport in the Africa-Middle East region after Dubai. Figures for 2002 show that more than 12 million people passed through the airport, an increase of some 8% on 2001 figures (www.airlinerworld.com).
Johannesburg International has the honourable distinction of ushering in the Jet Age. In 1952, the first commercial flight of a Comet jet took off from London Heathrow, bound for Johannesburg.
Its IATA Airport Code is JNB. Its ICAO Airport Code is FAJS.
The airport is the hub of South Africa's largest international and domestic airline, South African Airways, and a number of smaller local airlines.
During the 1980s many countries stopped trading with South Africa because of their government's Apartheid political ideas, and so many airlines from places worldwide either had to stop flying to the airport or were not allowed to.
Johannesburg International also serves as grounds for the South African Airways Museum, a room filled with South African Airways memorabilia and which started as an idea by two fans of the airline until they could set it up in one of Jan Smuts International's buildings in 1987.
Airlines flying to Johannesburg International Include:
- Aeroflot
- African International
- Air Austral
- Air Botswana
- Air France
- Air Gabon
- Air Madagascar
- Air Malawi
- Air Mauritius
- Air Namibia
- Air Seychelles
- Air Tanzania
- Air Zimbabwe
- Alitalia
- Angola Air Charter
- Austrian Airlines
- Balkan Bulgarian
- British Airways
- Cameroon Airlines
- Cathay Pacific
- Comair
- Egyptair
- El Al
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Ghana Airways
- Iberia
- KLM
- Kenya Airways
- LAM
- Lufthansa
- Martinair
- Metavia
- Nationwide Air
- Olympic Airways
- Qantas
- Royal Air Maroc
- Royal Swazi National
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- South African Airways
- Sun Air
- Swiss International Air Lines
- TAP Air Portugal
- Turkish Airlines
- Uganda Airlines
