The great thing about this program is that it shows you nearly 15 years
of traffic at JNB Airport with many airlines that no longer exist or types
of aircraft that have long been taken out of service.
Johannesburg International Airport was established in 1952 and named after Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who was the prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and also from 1939 to 1948.
Following the ending of apartheid in 1994, the reformed South African government implemented a national policy of not naming airports after politicians. The airports name, and that of other international and regional airports in South Africa, was changed to politically-neutral names. In 2006 however, the airport was again renamed to OR (Oliver Reginald) Tambo International Airport, the former president of the African National Congress (ANC).
As an incredible bonus you will take your seat in the cockpit of more
than half a dozen types of aircraft for takeoffs and landings on all the
JNB Airport runways and you will see what it looks like to taxi in as well!