NEWSFLASH - Ternimal name changes at O R Tambo International Airport
Terminal names change to Terminal A and Terminal B
Operational efficiency drives terminal name changes
O.R. Tambo International Airport has made the decision to follow the lead of other international airports and make the terminals multi-use such that terminals can be used to process both international and domestic flights interchangeably. The benefit of making the terminals multi-use will allow the airport to be more efficient in the use of existing infrastructure, thus minimising the dependence on more construction of new buildings to create capacity.
Like other international airports with multi-use terminals, the international and domestic descriptors of the terminals will fall away at O.R. Tambo International Airport. There will still be two terminals, which will in future be known as Terminal A and Terminal B. Terminal A will extend from the Central Terminal Building(CTB) atrium to the north (previously the international terminal) and Terminal B will extend south (previously the domestic terminal).
For the foreseeable future the check-in counters in the existing international departures hall will continue to be used for international flights only, while the multi-use CTB departures facility will be used by both international and domestic airlines allowing those airlines with domestic and international flights to use the same check-in counters.
Airlines moving to Terminal B
At the beginning of April 2009 when the new multi-use departures hall in Terminal B opens in the CTB some airlines serving international routes will move into the new facility.
Among them are those which will process both international and domestic passengers from the new facility. They include:
- SAA, Express and Airlink (which will process both international and domestic passengers from their counters)
- UM - Air Zimbabwe
- MD - Air Madagascar
- WB - Rwandair Express
- TC - Air Tanzania
- QF - Qantas
- CX - Cathay Pacific
- MS - Egypt Air
- MK - Air Mauritius
Implications for airport visitors
Visitors in future will have to know which terminal their airline of choice is operating from. Passengers should obtain this information at the time of booking their tickets. To assist them the airport will be putting up temporary signs that show which airlines operate out of each departure terminal.
Signage in and around the terminal will in the future no longer refer to domestic and international terminal. Signs will refer only to Terminal A or Terminal B.
Please assist visitors during this transition. For more information they can be directed to the iHelp agents wearing orange waistcoats located around the airport terminal.
Staff tours
For more information about the terminal name changes Gauteng based colleagues are reminded attend the staff tours of the CTB departures and the international arrivals taking place daily till Friday, 27 March 2009.
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