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JNB · FAOR Gauteng, South Africa Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 1,558 departures and 839 arrivals at O.R. Tambo International Airport, 342 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Cape Town (CPT), Nairobi (NBO) and Dubai (DXB). The airline seen most often is Airlink.

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Airport data

IATA code
JNB
ICAO code
FAOR
City
Johannesburg
Region
Gauteng
Country
South Africa
Elevation
1,694 m (5,558 ft)
Coordinates
-26.14008, 28.2468

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of O.R. Tambo International Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Johannesburg.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
342
departures + arrivals
Departures
1,558
total, 7 days
Arrivals
839
total, 7 days
Connections
20
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 237 226 463
Mon 2 235 138 373
Tue 3 215 104 319
Wed 4 208 115 323
Thu 5 218 69 287
Fri 6 243 94 337
Sat 7 202 93 295

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Cape Town CPT 399 flights
  2. Nairobi NBO Kenya 37 flights
  3. Dubai DXB United Arab Emirates 29 flights
  4. Hong Kong HKG Hong Kong SAR China 10 flights
  5. Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 7 flights
  6. Abu Dhabi AUH United Arab Emirates 7 flights
  7. Singapore SIN Singapore 7 flights
  8. Doha DOH Qatar 6 flights
  9. Newark EWR United States 5 flights
  10. São Paulo GRU Brazil 5 flights
  11. Johannesburg HLA 4 flights
  12. Durban DUR 3 flights
  13. Atlanta ATL United States 3 flights
  14. Istanbul IST Türkiye 3 flights
  15. Perth PER Australia 3 flights
  16. Luxembourg LUX Luxembourg 2 flights
4 more connections

Airlines

  1. AirlinkLNK 626
  2. SafairSFR 531
  3. South African AirwaysSAA 356
  4. CemAirKEM 74
  5. LIFT AirlineGBB 67
  6. EmiratesUAE 52
  7. Ethiopian AirlinesETH 50
  8. Federal AirFDR 36
  9. Turkish AirlinesTHY 32
  10. Fastjet ZimbabweFJW 30

Aircraft

  1. Boeing 737-800 B738 524
  2. Embraer E190 E190 330
  3. Airbus A320 A320 329
  4. Airbus A350-900 A359 120
  5. E295 79
  6. E135 77
  7. Embraer E195 E195 60
  8. Boeing 777-300ER B77W 53
  9. Embraer E170 E170 50
  10. Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 47

How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of O.R. Tambo International Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:

curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/-26.14008/lon/28.2468/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Johannesburg right now?”

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over O.R. Tambo International Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Johannesburg: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of JNB, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from O.R. Tambo International Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Airlink, Safair, South African Airways, CemAir and LIFT Airline.

What are the main connections from O.R. Tambo International Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Cape Town (CPT, 399), Nairobi (NBO, 37), Dubai (DXB, 29), Hong Kong (HKG, 10) and Amsterdam (AMS, 7). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Johannesburg? +

Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.

What are the codes for O.R. Tambo International Airport? +

O.R. Tambo International Airport has IATA code JNB and ICAO code FAOR. It lies in Gauteng, South Africa, at coordinates -26.14008, 28.2468.

Is the flight data free and open? +

Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.

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