JNB Johannesburg

How deep the JNB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from JNB. This reads the same 77 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 47of the 77 destinations are flown by one airline
• 20destinations run less than once a day
• 18destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.1%of the destinations name South African Airlink, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at JNB

46 airlines appear on the JNB board and they do not hold it evenly. South African Airlink is on 44 of the 77 destinations, 57.1 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 247.9 of the 288.8 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is South African Airways on 16 destinations. 29 of the 46 airlines at JNB appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 44 of the 77 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a JNB sector is usually another South African Airlink aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at JNB than the destination count does.

How much of the JNB board is daily

Of the 77 destinations, 57 are flown at least once a day and 20 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the JNB board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: JNB to Nosy Be (NOS) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 123.3 of the 288.8 departures a day, 42.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 72 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at JNB usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Brazzaville BZV	the Republic of the Congo	Afrijet	1	2,800	plan this
Nosy Be NOS	Madagascar	South African Airlink	1	2,533	plan this
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	2	7,462	plan this
Cidade de Nacala MNC	Mozambique	South African Airlink	2	1,833	plan this
Libreville LBV	Gabon	Afrijet	2	3,581	plan this
St Denis RUN	Réunion	Air Austral	2	2,835	plan this
Madrid MAD	Spain	Air Europa	3	8,106	plan this
Munich MUC	Germany	Lufthansa	3	8,444	plan this
Nampula APL	Mozambique	South African Airlink	3	1,679	plan this
Shenzhen SZX	China	Air China	3	10,681	the pair page

The ten destinations out of JNB where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 8 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from JNB

The desk holds the return direction for 56 of the 77 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into JNB runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Zanzibar (ZNZ) at 1.1 out a day against 0.71 back and Newark (EWR) at 1.6 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Dar es Salaam (DAR) files 2.9 a day back into JNB against 0.79 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at JNB

JNB keeps Africa/Johannesburg time, two hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at JNB, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at JNB and still make a departure the same day.

The night at JNB

7 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from JNB that lands inside it leaves around 13:04, on a modelled block of 11h 26m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from JNB that lands inside it leaves around 12:02, on a modelled block of 10h 58m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from JNB that lands inside it leaves around 11:38, on a modelled block of 11h 22m. Those three departure times out of JNB are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where JNB turns up on the rest of this site

JNB carries two other pages on this site as well: the South Africa country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the JNB transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 12 airport pair pages that start or end at JNB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Johannesburg to Cape Town (CPT), Johannesburg to Nairobi (NBO) and Johannesburg to Addis Ababa (ADD).

Seven of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Johannesburg, Doha to Johannesburg and Dubai to Johannesburg. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at JNB written out.

Three courier postings name JNB as the airport a courier here flies from: Johannesburg, Pretoria and Soshanguve.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with JNB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 77 destinations above.