Live flights over O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)
From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 444 departures and 344 arrivals at O.R. Tambo International Airport, 394 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.
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
23–24 October 2026
Movements per day
Show as a table
| Day | Departures | Arrivals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 | 249 | 257 | 506 |
| Sat 24 | 195 | 87 | 282 |
Connections
airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen
- Cape Town CPT 140 flights
- Nairobi NBO Kenya 11 flights
- Dubai DXB United Arab Emirates 8 flights
- Singapore SIN Singapore 4 flights
- Johannesburg HLA 3 flights
- Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 2 flights
- Atlanta ATL United States 2 flights
- São Paulo GRU Brazil 2 flights
- Hong Kong HKG Hong Kong SAR China 2 flights
- Munich MUC Germany 1 flights
- Luxembourg LUX Luxembourg 1 flights
- Victoria SEZ Seychelles 1 flights
- Newark EWR United States 1 flights
- Abu Dhabi AUH United Arab Emirates 1 flights
- Dubai DWC United Arab Emirates 1 flights
- Doha DOH Qatar 1 flights
Airlines
- AirlinkLNK 214
- SafairSFR 189
- South African AirwaysSAA 111
- LIFT AirlineGBB 23
- EmiratesUAE 15
- Fastjet ZimbabweFJW 14
- CemAirKEM 13
- Ethiopian AirlinesETH 12
- Singapore AirlinesSIA 12
- Federal AirFDR 10
Aircraft
- Boeing 737-800 B738 170
- Airbus A320 A320 107
- Embraer E190 E190 98
- Airbus A350-900 A359 43
- E135 28
- E295 28
- Embraer E195 E195 22
- Embraer E170 E170 19
- R44 18
- Boeing 737-700 B737 17
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.
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/80Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Johannesburg right now?”
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 (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were Airlink, Safair, South African Airways, LIFT Airline and Emirates.
What are the main connections from O.R. Tambo International Airport? +
The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: Cape Town (CPT, 140), Nairobi (NBO, 11), Dubai (DXB, 8), Singapore (SIN, 4) and Johannesburg (HLA, 3). 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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