Bloemfontein Airport

Bram Fischer international Airport
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator ACSA
South African Air Force
Location Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Focus city for CemAir
South African Express
Elevation AMSL 4,457 ft / 1,358 m
Coordinates 29°05′38″S 26°18′14″E / 29.09389°S 26.30389°E / -29.09389; 26.30389Coordinates: 29°05′38″S 26°18′14″E / 29.09389°S 26.30389°E / -29.09389; 26.30389
Website http://www.airports.co.za/airports/bram-fischer
Map
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Location in the Free State

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 2,559 8,395 Asphalt
12/30 2,195 7,201 Asphalt
Sources: Airport web site[1] and DAFIF[2][3]

Bram Fischer International Airport (IATA: BFN, ICAO: FABL) is primary airport located in Bloemfontein, a city in the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit.

In 2012, the airport served 426,420 passengers. Bloemfontein airport, like many others in South Africa, underwent R46 million's worth of construction and upgrading of the whole airport in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[4]

In November 2012, the South African government announced that the airport's name was to be changed to Bram Fischer International Airport; the official renaming was performed by Pres. Jacob Zuma on Thursday, 13 December 2012.[5]

Facilities

Bram Fischer International Airport main terminal building is used for both international and domestic flights. The building contains arrivals and departure hall, with different restaurants, car rental offices, including Europcar, Budget, Sixty, Value, and many more, and there are hotels near the airport. Citylodge is the nearest.

Infrastructure

Due to low passenger traffic at this airport ACSA have decided not to expand the airport, says the will expand the airport if the passenger traffic rises currently the airport is serving about 750 000 passengers per annum.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Airlink Durban, Johannesburg O. R. Tambo
South African Airways Johannesburg O. R. Tambo
CemAir George, Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo, Port Elizabeth
Mango Cape Town
South African Express Cape Town, Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Imperial Air Cargo Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo
Airlink Cargo Durban
South African Cargo Johannesburg. O. R. Tambo

South African Express is the operator with the most scheduled flights to Bloemfontein. Its fleet of Q400's and CRJ200's can regularly be seen at FABL. Mango, a subsidiary of South African Airways, operates one daily flight to Cape Town. Its services to Durban and Johannesburg were discontinued after no profit was made.

Aviation

Traffic statistics

Annual passenger traffic [6]
Year Passengers % Change
2006 305,701 Increase23.8%
2007 424,924 Increase39.0%
2008 411,683 Decrease3.1%
2009 399,666 Decrease2.9%
2010 403,766 Increase1.0%
2011 437,996 Increase8.5%
2012 426,420 Decrease2.6%
2013 380,284 Decrease10.8%

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bloemfontein Airport Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. - official site
  2. ↑ Airport information for FABL at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  3. ↑ Airport information for BFN at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ↑ http://www.shine2010.co.za/Community/blogs/goodnews/archive/2009/10/05/bloemfontein-airport-terminal-open-for-2010-world-cup.aspx
  5. ↑ SA: Statement by Free State Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Bloemfontein International Airport renamed Bram Fischer International Airport and Petrus Steyn renamed Mamafubedu (13/11/2012)
  6. ↑ "ACSA Passenger Statistics". Airports Company South Africa. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
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