Bloemfontein Airport
| Bram Fischer international Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
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ACSA South African Air Force |
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| Location | Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | CemAir | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,457 ft / 1,358 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°05′38″S 26°18′14″E / 29.09389°S 26.30389°ECoordinates: 29°05′38″S 26°18′14″E / 29.09389°S 26.30389°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.airports.co.za/airports/bram-fischer | ||||||||||||||
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Sources: Airport web site and DAFIF
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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.
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.
Bram Fischer International Airport main terminal building is used for both international and domestic flights. the building comprises of arrival's and departure hall,with different restaurants, car rental offices some of them are Europcar,Budget, Sixty,Value, and many more and there are hotels near the airport. Citylodge is the nearest.
Due to low passenger traffic at this airport ACSA have decided not to expand the the airport ,says the will expand the airport if the passenger traffic rises currently the airport is serving about 750 000 passengers per annum.
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.
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