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HLA · Johannesburg, South Africa
--:--:-- · SAST (UTC+02:00) · 25.9390° S, 27.9266° E
Lanseria International Airport
Secondary airport serving Johannesburg, South Africa
Verification trail
This section separates stable airport identifiers from live operating data. Codes, coordinates, timezone, elevation, source identifiers, and accepted reference links are retained here; live arrivals, departures, gates, delays, NOTAMs, and airline schedule changes must still be checked with the airport or carrier.
OurAirports ID 2800; ident FALA; scheduled service listed.
Cached airports.csv snapshot: 2026-04-25; runways.csv snapshot: 2026-05-21.
landseria.co.za
Used as the preferred live-reference handoff for terminals, gates, alerts, and airport notices.
Open sourceLanseria International Airport
Airport-shaped reference summary from en.wikipedia.org; summary snapshot 2026-05-25.
Open source16 source-backed signals
Merged from OurAirports cached airports.csv, OurAirports cached runways.csv, Wikidata airport entity snapshot, airport-shaped Wikipedia summary snapshot; facts generated 2026-05-25.
IATA / ICAO
HLA / FALA
OurAirports ident
FALA
GPS / local code
FALA
ISO region
ZA-GT
Scheduled service
Listed in source snapshot
Role
international scheduled-service gateway
Official host
landseria.co.za
Reference host
en.wikipedia.org
Wikidata entity
Q2163819
Snapshot generated
2026-05-25
Airport lookup keys
Stable codes
Regional keys
Nearby airport codes
Route reference codes
Accepted citation URLs
Last updated May 25, 2026. Stable airport identifiers and timezone facts are content-reviewed; clocks render live in the browser, while weather and time-difference notes are page-snapshot aids rather than permanent airport records.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 6:07 PM UTC.
Local airport time
--:--:--SAST · UTC+02:00
Time zone
SAST
Africa/Johannesburg · UTC+02:00
Airfield conditions
Live airport weather is temporarily unavailable.
Surface access
32 km
Approximate distance to central Johannesburg.
Country capital
Pretoria
Languages
Afrikaans, English
Currency
ZAR (R)
Country area
1,221,037 km²
Passenger volume
Source note unavailable
Terminals
Not clearly stated
Runways
1 runway
Longest runway
9,996 ft / 3,047 m
Runway surface
asphalt
Opened / operator
1974
Owner / entity
Q2163819
Hub airlines
Mixed or not clearly stated
Airport role
international scheduled-service gateway
Scheduled service
Listed
Fact coverage
16 source-backed signals
Lanseria International Airport is a international scheduled-service gateway for Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg's built-up core sits roughly 32 km from the terminal area. Operations run on Africa/Johannesburg (UTC+02:00, SAST). Live weather is temporarily unavailable. With 3 other indexable airports in its surrounding network, it works well as a reference point for regional flight planning and timezone checks.
Lanseria International Airport (HLA / FALA) is at 25.9390° S, 27.9266° E, elevation 4,517 ft (1,377 m), serving Johannesburg, South Africa.
The accepted reference summary is used as supporting context for the airport identity and operating notes; the timed facts here still come from the airport catalog, timezone database, country snapshot, and linked source trail.
Johannesburg is in South Africa (capital Pretoria); regulated by South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA); on Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00); working languages: Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele; currency: ZAR (R).
Distance from central Johannesburg: 32 km.
A compact traveler-facing brief from the airport catalog, country snapshot, route geometry, city anchors, peer airports, and source trail for HLA.
Primary airport name
Lanseria International Airport (HLA / FALA)
Lanseria International Airport · Secondary airport serving Johannesburg, South Africa
Source identifiers
FALA · FALA · ZA-GT
landseria.co.za · en.wikipedia.org · scheduled service yes
Location cue
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Used to make the airport page location-specific beyond the code, coordinate, and timezone record.
1. Diepsloot
diepsloot · 8.6 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 350,000 · city coordinates -25.9331, 28.0121
2. Randburg
randburg · 19 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 337,053 · city coordinates -26.0941, 28.0012
3. Midrand
midrand · 20 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 87,387 · city coordinates -25.9760, 28.1180
4. Krugersdorp
krugersdorp · 22 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 378,821 · city coordinates -26.0858, 27.7752
5. Hartbeespoort
hartbeespoort · 24 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 26,732 · city coordinates -25.7287, 27.8700
6. Alexandra
alexandra · 25 km from HLA
South Africa · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · population 179,624 · city coordinates -26.1053, 28.0988
1. JNB FAOR
O.R. Tambo International Airport · Johannesburg
39 km from HLA · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · elevation 5,558 ft (1,694 m) · airport coordinates -26.1401, 28.2468
2. PTG FAPP
Polokwane International Airport · Polokwane
279 km from HLA · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · elevation 4,076 ft (1,242 m) · airport coordinates -23.8453, 29.4586
3. BFN FABL
Bram Fischer International Airport · Bloemfontein
386 km from HLA · Africa/Johannesburg · +0h · elevation 4,457 ft (1,358 m) · airport coordinates -29.0927, 26.3024
1. HLA-PTG
Polokwane · 279 km · 1h 11m
Africa/Johannesburg · +0h from HLA; reference route only, not a live schedule.
2. HLA-BFN
Bloemfontein · 386 km · 1h 19m
Africa/Johannesburg · +0h from HLA; reference route only, not a live schedule.
Published runway count
1 runway
Longest runway 9,996 ft / 3,047 m. 1 lighted runway in the runway snapshot.
Runway surface mix
asphalt
Surface labels are normalized from the OurAirports runway rows for HLA.
Runway identifiers
07/25
Identifier pairs are retained as airport-specific runway cues, not live operational availability claims.
1. JNB FAOR
O.R. Tambo International Airport · Johannesburg · 39 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 5,558 ft (1,694 m) · -26.1401, 28.2468
2. PTG FAPP
Polokwane International Airport · Polokwane · 279 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 4,076 ft (1,242 m) · -23.8453, 29.4586
3. BFN FABL
Bram Fischer International Airport · Bloemfontein · 386 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 4,457 ft (1,358 m) · -29.0927, 26.3024
4. DUR FALE
King Shaka International Airport · Durban · 515 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 295 ft (90 m) · -29.6144, 31.1197
5. ELS FAEL
King Phalo Airport · East London · 789 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 435 ft (133 m) · -33.0356, 27.8259
6. PLZ FAPE
Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport · Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) · 922 km from HLA
large airport · Africa/Johannesburg · south-africa · 226 ft (69 m) · -33.9897, 25.6174
HLA sits in South Africa (Republic of South Africa), whose capital is Pretoria. South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) is the national civil-aviation authority we name for regulator context. Country context: Africa, Southern Africa.
Common country-language signals: Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho. Currency context: ZAR (R). HLA is listed with scheduled service in the airport source snapshot.
Secondary airport serving Johannesburg, South Africa. This description is used only as identity context; live flight status, terminal assignment, and airport alerts still belong to the official airport or airline source.
Location cue: Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Wikidata airport entity: Q2163819 · Lanseria International Airport. Administrative area: Gauteng. Entity official-site cross-check: lanseria.co.za
Lanseria International Airport is a high-elevation field at 4,517 ft (1,377 m), positioned at 25.9390° S, 27.9266° E in the Southern subtropics. The runway snapshot lists 1 runway and a longest runway of 9,996 ft / 3,047 m. The airport clock uses Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00), so cross-date arrivals should be checked against this zone rather than the airline origin city.
Diepsloot is the closest retained city-time anchor at 8.6 km. JNB Johannesburg is the closest retained airport alternative at 39 km.
HLA is compared with JNB Johannesburg at 39 km, PTG Polokwane at 279 km, BFN Bloemfontein at 386 km, DUR Durban at 515 km, ELS East London at 789 km inside the retained South Africa airport set, which is useful when backup airports share the same country context but differ by city, route network, and clock behavior.
HLA-PTG Polokwane: 279 km, about 1h 11m, +0h. HLA-BFN Bloemfontein: 386 km, about 1h 19m, +0h. These are distance and timezone references, not live flight availability claims.
OurAirports ident FALA backs the stable code, coordinate, elevation, and timezone record. landseria.co.za is attached as the official airport website. en.wikipedia.org is used only as supporting reference context. Snapshot date: 2026-05-25.
Traffic profile
Reference airport
Airline role
Mixed commercial service
Terminal footprint
See operational notes
Runway footprint
1 runway · longest 9,996 ft / 3,047 m
Runway identifiers
07/25
OurAirports classifies HLA as a large airport with scheduled service; the airport name and codes identify it as an international gateway for Johannesburg.
HLA (FALA) is a high-elevation field at 4,517 ft (1,377 m) in the subtropics, kept in the curated set for its route, timezone, and market-planning value.
HLA sits in a broader regional network with 3 nearby curated alternatives, so airline choice and connection strategy are part of the planning story here.
HLA's runway record lists 1 runway, with the longest runway at 9,996 ft / 3,047 m and source surfaces recorded as asphalt.
Civil aviation oversight for HLA runs through South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA); a more specific operator record is not currently in our source set.
These operational notes prefer the structured airport facts snapshot, then fall back to the accepted airport reference at landseria.co.za, then blend that with local timezone, route, and city-access data already on this page.
These are the specific situations where this airport page earns its keep: time-zone conversion, city transfer planning, nearby airport backup logic, and source-confidence checks before acting.
HLA uses Africa/Johannesburg (SAST, UTC+02:00). Use this before overnight arrivals, cross-date departures, and same-day connections.
Lanseria International Airport is about 32 km from central Johannesburg; build that transfer into arrival and check-in planning.
JNB Johannesburg is the closest retained alternate at 39 km, time difference +0h.
landseria.co.za is listed as the official airport website in the airport facts snapshot; live schedules, gates, routes, terminals, and NOTAM-sensitive operations still need official airport or airline verification.
These comparisons place HLA inside the retained airport graph by country, timezone, elevation, and coordinate neighbors. They are deterministic dataset facts, not generated flight claims.
HLA ranks #5 in the curated South Africa airport set when large airports are listed before medium airports, then sorted by IATA code. The retained country set has 8 airports.
HLA shares Africa/Johannesburg with BFN Bloemfontein ZA · CPT Cape Town ZA · DUR Durban ZA · ELS East London ZA · JNB Johannesburg ZA · PLZ Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) ZA. This helps separate same-clock airports by city, country, code, and geography.
HLA is 4,517 ft (1,377 m). Closest elevation peers in the retained airport set include CUU 4,462 ft (1,360 m) (55 ft delta) · TBZ 4,459 ft (1,359 m) (58 ft delta) · BFN 4,457 ft (1,358 m) (60 ft delta) · RNO 4,415 ft (1,346 m) (102 ft delta) · KTM 4,390 ft (1,338 m) (127 ft delta).
HLA's nearest retained coordinate neighbors are JNB 39 km +0h · PTG 279 km +0h · BFN 386 km +0h.
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| Destination | Route code | Distance | Estimated window | Time difference | Destination clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polokwane | PTG | 279 km | 1h 11m | +0h | --:--:-- |
| Bloemfontein | BFN | 386 km | 1h 19m | +0h | --:--:-- |
HLA to PTG
Distance 279 km; estimated travel window 1h 11m; destination zone Africa/Johannesburg is +0h from HLA. Use the live destination clock on this page as a cross-timezone planning cue, not as a live flight schedule.
HLA to BFN
Distance 386 km; estimated travel window 1h 19m; destination zone Africa/Johannesburg is +0h from HLA. Use the live destination clock on this page as a cross-timezone planning cue, not as a live flight schedule.
The airport sits in the normal outer-ring range for a major metro gateway, so rail, shuttle coach, and ride-hail all matter when you judge the fastest arrival.
Johannesburg is the nearest mapped city anchor in the current dataset, which makes it the cleanest companion page when travelers want to switch from airport timing into local city timing.
Lanseria International Airport has 3 nearby indexed airport alternatives, which makes backup departures and diversion logic part of real planning instead of a theoretical edge case.
Airport pages are most useful when they bridge into real city clocks. These city anchors are ranked by distance from HLA, then shown with their own timezone, local time, and time difference from the airport clock.
Diepsloot
diepsloot · 8.6 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Randburg
randburg · 19 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Midrand
midrand · 20 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Krugersdorp
krugersdorp · 22 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Hartbeespoort
hartbeespoort · 24 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Alexandra
alexandra · 25 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Roodepoort
roodepoort · 25 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Midstream
midstream · 27 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Centurion
centurion · 27 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Ivory Park
ivory-park · 28 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Thembisa
thembisa · 31 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Bagale
bagale · 31 km · Africa/Johannesburg
Lanseria International Airport does not have a long carrier list in the current source trail, so this page emphasizes the durable pieces travelers can safely use here: local time, field identifiers, nearby airports, and timezone differences.
The route timing references show the first cross-timezone planning burden after this airport: Polokwane (PTG), Bloemfontein (BFN). Treat them as distance and clock cues, then verify flight availability with the carrier.
Planning checkpoints
Nearby airports are ranked by coordinate distance from HLA. The time difference column is computed from IANA zones against the page snapshot, while the local clocks update in the browser.
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNB
Johannesburg · large airport
Compare against JNB when route choice, backup departures, or arrival-side local time matters.
Polokwane International AirportPTG
Polokwane · large airport
Compare against PTG when route choice, backup departures, or arrival-side local time matters.
Bram Fischer International AirportBFN
Bloemfontein · large airport
Compare against BFN when route choice, backup departures, or arrival-side local time matters.
Questions
Lanseria International Airport is in the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Lanseria International Airport uses IATA code HLA and ICAO code FALA.
Lanseria International Airport is located in Johannesburg, South Africa at coordinates 25.9390° S, 27.9266° E, with an elevation of 4,517 ft (1,377 m) (high-elevation field in the subtropics).
Lanseria International Airport sits roughly 32 km from the nearest mapped city center for Johannesburg.
Polokwane (PTG) is one of the closest route references on this page, with an estimated travel window of 1h 11m, destination timezone Africa/Johannesburg, and a +0h difference from HLA.
Lanseria International Airport sits inside South Africa, where civil aviation oversight is led by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA).
HLA's curated peers in South Africa on this site include JNB Johannesburg, PTG Polokwane, BFN Bloemfontein, plus 3 more.
Lanseria International Airport's source-backed operational summary lists 1 runway, with the longest runway recorded at 9,996 ft / 3,047 m; identifiers include 07/25.
