GRJ

George Airport

ICAO FAGG34.0056°S 22.3789°E198 m / 648 ftLarge airport
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George Airport (IATA: GRJ, ICAO: FAGG) is a large airport in George, Western Cape, South Africa. It opened in 1977. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Airports Company South Africa. In 2012 it handled 554 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1977–1977
1977
OpenedGeorge Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
11/29089° / 269° · LIT
LENGTH2,000 m6,562 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2012
564K
554K
1112

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsCemAir 3FlySafair 2BidAir Cargo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GRJ. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “George Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers554K (2012)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,072of 3,974 · #70 Africa · #7 ZALongest runway2,000 m6,562 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,840of 29,823 · =442 Africa · #25 ZAElevation198 m648 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,443of 43,341 · #2,524 Africa · #445 ZAAgeOpened 19772026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,549of 15,079 · =88 Africa · #10 ZARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =42 ZA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPGeorge Approach128.200
GTEAPRON122.650
TWRTWR118.900
ATIS126.225