HLA

Lanseria International Airport

ICAO FALA25.9390°S 27.9266°E1,377 m / 4,517 ftLarge airport
On the map
LanseriaAirport LandsideExterior Jan2009
Petrus Potgieter · Public domain · Commons

Lanseria International Airport (IATA: HLA, ICAO: FALA) is a large airport in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It opened in 1974. It has one runway, 3,047 m (9,996 ft) long, asphalt. In 2017 it handled 1.9 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1974–1974
1974
OpenedLanseria International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
07/25057° / 227° · LIT · SLOPE 1.3%
LENGTH3,047 m9,996 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2003–2017
160K
1.9M
0317

Routes

7 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsFlySafair 5BidAir Cargo 2Airlink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HLA. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Lanseria International Airport” (revision of 13 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.9M (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#588of 3,974 · #32 Africa · #4 ZALongest runway3,047 m9,996 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,112of 29,823 · #163 Africa · #11 ZAElevation1,377 m4,517 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#2,640of 43,341 · #496 Africa · #127 ZAAgeOpened 19742026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,986of 15,079 · =84 Africa · #9 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
APPJOHANNESBURG APP123.700
GNDGND121.650
GTEAPRON122.850
TWRTWR124.000