What airport is JNB?
Why the code is JNB
JohaNnesBurg, consonants.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- JNB
- ICAO code
- FAOR
- Airport
- O. R. Tambo International Airport
- City
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Code origin
- Documented
At 1,694 m, Johannesburg is one of the highest major international airports in the world, and the thin air lengthens takeoff runs enough that some long-haul flights leave with a payload restriction. It has been renamed three times — Jan Smuts, Johannesburg International, then O. R. Tambo — and kept its code throughout.
The other code, FAOR
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, JNB, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, FAOR, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why FAOR looks nothing like JNB.
Common questions
- What airport is JNB?
- O. R. Tambo International Airport, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Why is Johannesburg's airport called JNB?
- JohaNnesBurg, consonants.
- What is the difference between JNB and FAOR?
- JNB is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. FAOR is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
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Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)