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8th
July
2007
In transit in Johannesburg
Originally uploaded by baggas.
After a long 12 hour overnight flight from Perth, we now have a 6 hour wait in Johannesburg airport for our next flight to Uganda. Fortunately we’ve got the Diners Club lounge all to ourselves with lots of free food and drink so it’s actually pretty relaxing.
Tomorrow we will be at the Sanyu babies home and later in the week at the Watoto Bullrushes babies home. Internet can be a bit patchy in Uganda but I’ll try and update when I can.
Categories : Africa, Family, Personal, Travel |
8th
July
2007
OR Tambo International Airport – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OR Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAJS) is a large airport near the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel to/from South Africa and is Africa’s busiest airport, handling over 16 million passengers in 2005. The airport is the hub of South Africa’s largest international and domestic carrier, South African Airways (SAA), and a number of smaller local airlines.
It was formerly officially known as Johannesburg International Airport and before that as Jan Smuts International Airport (explaining the airport’s ICAO code, FAJS) after the South African statesman of that name. The first renaming was done in 1994 when the newly reformed South African government implemented a national policy of not naming airports after politicians. It was renamed again on 27 October 2006 after Oliver Tambo, the former President of the African National Congress[2]. (ANC) [..read more..]
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