Yes you are right. Seems like it is Barloworld's and Caterpillar's Head Office and Showroom. The building got an award in 2020 and was designed by Paragon Architects.
I have flown from and to the three main Airport ports in South Africa, Jhb, Cape Town and Durban and have to admit that the size of O R Tambo and its facilities are First World standard.The length of the taxieing alone gives one an idea of the massive size of the airport.
Great video. I have passed many times through OR Tambo and its definitely a First World airport. One can spend some hours airside checking out all the amenities. Plenty of restaurants, clean ablution blocks, great views of aircraft, spacious and well stocked lounges... And also bookshops where you can buy so many books on SA and the region; also some stores selling a wide range of curios and souvenirs of SA. In other African international airports, there are no bookshops or stores selling curios etc; only duty free shops selling the same old 'see it anywhere' stuff - Toblerone chocolate, Peter Stuyvesant fags, perfumes...
@@unwoke1652 why should l border myself correction this is not my mother's tounge English it's just a universal language 🥺🥺 l will never trust me you can laugh if you want l am not even borded by that are they speaking our languages we have 11 one is being added now we have 12 languages they can't even speak fluently msssh l don't care how much you know English if you fluent good for you
World standard airport, with all that it takes to be called an airport. Fellow Africans I urge you more especially those who are in authority to do the right thing when you are given an opportunity, emulate the South Africans who have the best infrastructure with nice architects, from Zambia.
I’ve been here before, there is even a hotel (lodge idk) in the airport for travellers to check into and stay for as long as they like (or until the expected flight like mine)
People are busy saying OR Tambo is the busy and number 1 .The Airport belongs to all SA citizens as SA government spends a lot for that OR Tambo Airport. Other Airports are Provincial no need of comparing as if Gauteng Premier Upgraded that Airport. OR Tambo is the most crucial Airport for International travel To and from South Africa ,please stop being childish.
Capetown n Durban are also international airports can handle international flights directly so yeah they can be compared. By the way Cape Town has been ranked as number these are views of the passagers, also you must take into account that the bigger the airport more troubles.
@@LivinginSAtv yes they are, the one is one floor up behind the lifts that overlook the international arrivals area and the other one us way over on the North side where the flying crew check in at Operations.
When i first left 🇿🇦 for North America in 2000, & when i came back in 2005 it was still called JHB international airport. When i left again in 2006 for the 🇬🇧 it was still JHB international airport.
@@Stirlingshirecastle Spending billions to upgrade is about *location.* They practically built a new airport and a whole aeropolis around it. It was in the perfect location.
I was just there yesterday! My first time ever and I'm glad to say that the indoor parking confused me quite a lot 😅 not even joking. Also, there's a Bidvest Lounge in the airport and a train station "The gautrain" there.
@@LivinginSAtv Really easy indeed. My advice for the first timers: just avoid the touts in the arrival hall and take the escalator on your right. The trains sign is very easy to find. A second escalator takes you directly to the station.
I think changes few things like tiles and putting in bright tiles as in white tiles, and changing the ceiling and putting in modern artistic ceiling also with bright colours like whites and light blue maybe
Looks very dated and claustrophobic. A few changes like an artistic open glass skyroof will bring in more light into the building and indoor plants. Also a lot of congestion of passengers at the international arrivals as there are two staff members at the passport checkpoint.
It's actually not as dingy as the video makes it look, there is almost zero footage inside the original airport building which was already there when we emigrated to SA in 1974. Where did you see congestion at international arrivals? Passport control is airside in Terminal A, ground floor, before baggage claim, not shown in this video. The crowded area is check-in.
So you all are busy arguing about Cape Town and OR Tambo Airport. How can you compare these two?Capetown is Provincial and is rate as the best even though is small.Or Tambo is a Main Airport of SA it has to be big.The 4.5 billion rands that was used to upgrade OR Thambo Airport is South Africa money not Gauteng not Provincial as Capetown.
You chosen a VERY expensive parking spot! I parked in this same area in 2010 and they hit me R600 for the privilege! Nope, I am not joking! Others had the same experience, and the Airports Companies response was that people should read the cost of parking on the sign next to the gate, before taking a ticket from the machine. Try that with a line of cars behind you hooting for you to get a move on! Your cheapest parking spots are in those towers where the City Lodge is, but it is quite a walk to the terminal from there.
Just something factual: Cape Town International is rated as best airport in South Africa, and afaik, Africa. It is very modern and efficient, a pleasant place to be. Please pay it a visit.
@@luthovellem865even if you google "best airport in Africa." The result speaks for itself So ja maybe in your opinion it is not. But the world knows 🎉
Why exposing our airport. ? All credit to people who build started ORT....once was a great airport. Is this for tourism or wonder what? Absolutely not a South African talking.
Why are we having those stands inside airport, this must really stop. It makes our internal airport dirty really not neat. Those people come out thre nd b placed outside airport thre no need for that.
@@sollymarota4794 how am I jealous? The truth hurts dear. It was very messed up and disorganised, it's not even international standards, I lived abroad and even Thailand and Vietnam, pooere countries, airport is much more topnotch
I'm very obsessed with South African Aviation Industry keep them coming Malume🛫✈
The OR Tambo International Airport Is A Master Piece A Proper Advert For Airports In Africa
Yes it is!
BIGGEST AIRPORT IN AFRICA BY FAR
That CAT building, insane.
Yes you are right. Seems like it is Barloworld's and Caterpillar's Head Office and Showroom. The building got an award in 2020 and was designed by Paragon Architects.
I have flown from and to the three main Airport ports in South Africa, Jhb, Cape Town and Durban and have to admit that the size of O R Tambo and its facilities are First World standard.The length of the taxieing alone gives one an idea of the massive size of the airport.
Great video. I have passed many times through OR Tambo and its definitely a First World airport. One can spend some hours airside checking out all the amenities. Plenty of restaurants, clean ablution blocks, great views of aircraft, spacious and well stocked lounges... And also bookshops where you can buy so many books on SA and the region; also some stores selling a wide range of curios and souvenirs of SA. In other African international airports, there are no bookshops or stores selling curios etc; only duty free shops selling the same old 'see it anywhere' stuff - Toblerone chocolate, Peter Stuyvesant fags, perfumes...
OR Thambo airport is a busiest in AFRICA 🌍🤞🇿🇦 we are no 1 tourist distanation in Africa 😮
Please, respectfully, install Grammarly if you spell that badly.....
@@unwoke1652 why should l border myself correction this is not my mother's tounge English it's just a universal language 🥺🥺 l will never trust me you can laugh if you want l am not even borded by that are they speaking our languages we have 11 one is being added now we have 12 languages they can't even speak fluently msssh l don't care how much you know English if you fluent good for you
Wow, if you ever visited Birmingham International Airport in England, its very similar outside
World standard airport, with all that it takes to be called an airport. Fellow Africans I urge you more especially those who are in authority to do the right thing when you are given an opportunity, emulate the South Africans who have the best infrastructure with nice architects, from Zambia.
I’ve been here before, there is even a hotel (lodge idk) in the airport for travellers to check into and stay for as long as they like (or until the expected flight like mine)
Thank you 💪
Where are you originally from? Are you living in SA permanently?
What day of the week and time of the day was this video taken?. The airport looks very NOT busy compared to my visit before the pandemic.
exposure.....good footage hey.
Great content
Tambo International Airport is better than a lot of airports in Europe.
Thank you!
I can confirm that 👌
❤O Tambo airport
People are busy saying OR Tambo is the busy and number 1 .The Airport belongs to all SA citizens as SA government spends a lot for that OR Tambo Airport. Other Airports are Provincial no need of comparing as if Gauteng Premier Upgraded that Airport. OR Tambo is the most crucial Airport for International travel To and from South Africa ,please stop being childish.
Capetown n Durban are also international airports can handle international flights directly so yeah they can be compared. By the way Cape Town has been ranked as number these are views of the passagers, also you must take into account that the bigger the airport more troubles.
Fact remains, OR Tambo is the best on the continent 😂
@@ManlesssOR Tambo is very safe and strict on security, I don’t know what you mean by bigger airports having “more troubles”
People are busy saying OR Tambo is busy
Did you not visit the viewing decks?
Are they accessible to airport visitors who are not flying?
@@LivinginSAtv yes they are, the one is one floor up behind the lifts that overlook the international arrivals area and the other one us way over on the North side where the flying crew check in at Operations.
@@LivinginSAtv Yes they are.
When i first left 🇿🇦 for North America in 2000, & when i came back in 2005 it was still called JHB international airport. When i left again in 2006 for the 🇬🇧 it was still JHB international airport.
And it looked nothing then like the billions upgrade it received for 2010...🤷🏽♂️
@@agrid2608 billions can simply build another airport, not only upgrading it. I'm sure they spent millions for upgrading, not billions
@@Stirlingshirecastle
Spending billions to upgrade is about *location.*
They practically built a new airport and a whole aeropolis around it.
It was in the perfect location.
@@agrid2608 I got your message.
When we left (and never returned) in 1980 it was Jan Smuts. And so I will remember it.
You must be 2 hours earlier. The airport is massive
Not really, unless you’re flying internationally
Go and check the new Robart Mugabe state of the art airport it is mind blowing i think its the biggest in Africa❤
Yah it's awesome
Biggest in Africa, where did you get that?
Robert, not fudging Robart.....
Hahahaha. Dude. Harare airport is 10 times smaller than ORT. I regularly fly between them.
I doubt a Zim airport is bigger than OR🥴
It looks like not so many people guess it's enormous big
I was just there yesterday! My first time ever and I'm glad to say that the indoor parking confused me quite a lot 😅 not even joking.
Also, there's a Bidvest Lounge in the airport and a train station "The gautrain" there.
Yes
good morning
I just like how u pronounce "airport" 😊
I recognise the Portuguese accent a mile away 🙈✈️
👌
Gread video.
Just a pitty that you didn't show how to access the Gautrain.
I was there last Friday by the way.😉
It's simple, on the restaurant floor, go up the escalators, you will see the Gautrain sign.
@@LivinginSAtv Really easy indeed.
My advice for the first timers: just avoid the touts in the arrival hall and take the escalator on your right. The trains sign is very easy to find. A second escalator takes you directly to the station.
For the most busiest airport in Africa OR Tambo is hugely underwhelming aesthetically, it looks so basic. Not ugly but basic
True, it is quite old fashioned
I think changes few things like tiles and putting in bright tiles as in white tiles, and changing the ceiling and putting in modern artistic ceiling also with bright colours like whites and light blue maybe
New globes for the lighting is a start
Outside sure but inside, nothing basic about it
Looks very dated and claustrophobic. A few changes like an artistic open glass skyroof will bring in more light into the building and indoor plants. Also a lot of congestion of passengers at the international arrivals as there are two staff members at the passport checkpoint.
It's actually not as dingy as the video makes it look, there is almost zero footage inside the original airport building which was already there when we emigrated to SA in 1974.
Where did you see congestion at international arrivals? Passport control is airside in Terminal A, ground floor, before baggage claim, not shown in this video. The crowded area is check-in.
So you all are busy arguing about Cape Town and OR Tambo Airport. How can you compare these two?Capetown is Provincial and is rate as the best even though is small.Or Tambo is a Main Airport of SA it has to be big.The 4.5 billion rands that was used to upgrade OR Thambo Airport is South Africa money not Gauteng not Provincial as Capetown.
You chosen a VERY expensive parking spot! I parked in this same area in 2010 and they hit me R600 for the privilege! Nope, I am not joking! Others had the same experience, and the Airports Companies response was that people should read the cost of parking on the sign next to the gate, before taking a ticket from the machine. Try that with a line of cars behind you hooting for you to get a move on! Your cheapest parking spots are in those towers where the City Lodge is, but it is quite a walk to the terminal from there.
You think that's expensive? Try the airport in Oslo, norway. One hour is R3000 😮 not kidding
I saw Zimbabwean flag there
When we left S.A. (and never returned) in 1980 it was Jan Smuts. And so I will remember it.
grow up.
So don't come back because it will forever be OR Tambo
Is your camera attached to your body ? I am sure security would not allow this for obvious reasons.
So few couples in this video
Just something factual: Cape Town International is rated as best airport in South Africa, and afaik, Africa. It is very modern and efficient, a pleasant place to be. Please pay it a visit.
Cape Town is small compared to OR though...OR passengers per annum can reach over 20 million. CT's is about half that number
That statement is absolutely false. Cape Town Airport is Not rated the best airport in the country.
@luthovellem865 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂go do your research. At capetown International, they have a cabinet with all the trophies. And please read 😂😂
@@luthovellem865even if you google "best airport in Africa." The result speaks for itself
So ja maybe in your opinion it is not. But the world knows 🎉
You are dreaming
OMG I was te
Last time I was in that airport, there were broken windows and toilet doors that were falling apart….hope it get back to its glory days!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂let’s hope
It was yur pant had holes not airport vorstek😮
@@zdfmidmzezewa5730The truth hurts my bra😂😂
I was expecting a bitter jealousy response from persons like you who don't like black people doing good things here tsek
Lol lying much?😂
Better than Nigerian counterpart
Little landing strip😂
Why exposing our airport. ? All credit to people who build started ORT....once was a great airport. Is this for tourism or wonder what? Absolutely not a South African talking.
There's nothing wrong with showcasing a beautiful airport
Why are we having those stands inside airport, this must really stop. It makes our internal airport dirty really not neat. Those people come out thre nd b placed outside airport thre no need for that.
Or rambo. Says hello to Putin
If you want your luggage pilfered, then that's the airport for the job. By the way, spot the white ACSA staff member and win a Datsun.
Very, very true. And nothing is done to bring the pilferers to book.
A lot of them are in higher positions go check them
Looks dirty and run down. Not nice at all. Looks like some old place with broken lights inside
People are being destroyed by their own jealousy sies man
@@sollymarota4794 how am I jealous? The truth hurts dear. It was very messed up and disorganised, it's not even international standards, I lived abroad and even Thailand and Vietnam, pooere countries, airport is much more topnotch
@@cape2838then check out Frankfurt International. I live in Germany, but I prefer OR Tambo any day over FRA Int.
You are mad
There's nothing dirty about this airport. It looks perfectly fine to me
No need to go back it’s a dump
I call it Jan Smuts Airport
The airport name has already changed 😂
@@humbiaa Twice
Trying to flaunt your refusal to accept change.
Apartheid is over Tony
@@vuyokazimthethwa lives on in my heart. Live by it everyday.