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| stat4-header = Social impact | stat4-data = | footnotes = Source: Passenger Statistics〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=O.R. Tambo Airport Passenger Statistics )〕 }} O. R. Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) is a major international airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa,〔"(Background )". Ekurhuleni. 3 (3/8). Retrieved 30 September 2009.〕 near the city of Johannesburg. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel to/from South Africa and is Africa's busiest airport with a capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers annually〔(World Cup improvements at Johannesburg airport nearly complete ) YouTube (5 April 2010).〕 with non-stop flights to all continents except Antarctica. 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. The airport handled a total of 18 million passengers in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=O.R. Tambo International Airport - Statistics - ACSA Media )〕 It was originally known as Jan Smuts International Airport (hence the airport's former ICAO code, "FAJS"), after South Africa's former prime minister of that name. The airport was renamed Johannesburg International Airport in 1994 when the newly reformed South African government implemented a national policy of not naming airports after politicians. The policy was however reversed later, and the airport renamed again on 27 October 2006 after Oliver Tambo, a former President of the African National Congress. ==History== The airport was founded in 1952 as "Jan Smuts Airport", two years after his death, near the town of Kempton Park on the East Rand. It displaced the "Palmietfontein International Airport", which had handled European flights since 1945. It was used as a test airport for the Concorde during the 1970s, to determine how the aircraft would perform while taking off and landing at high altitude.〔(TIMELINE −70s ). Concorde Sst (21 January 1976).〕 During the 1980s, many countries stopped trading with South Africa because of the United Nation sanctions imposed against South Africa in the struggle against apartheid, and many international airlines had to stop flying to the airport. These sanctions also resulted in South African Airways being refused rights to fly over most African countries, and in addition to this the risk of flying over some African countries was emphasised by the shooting down of two passenger aircraft over Rhodesia (Air Rhodesia Flight 825 and 827),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Details p of Air Rhodesia Flight RH825 )〕 forcing them to fly around the "bulge" of Africa. This required specially-modified aircraft like the Boeing 747-SP. Following the ending of apartheid, the airport's name, and that of other international airports in South Africa, were changed and these restrictions were lifted. The airport overtook Cairo International Airport in 1996 as the busiest airport in Africa〔. Airport Technology (15 June 2011).〕 The aircraft landed in Johannesburg on its way to Sydney via the South Pole on a test flight. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「O. R. Tambo International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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