BFNFABL

Bram Fischer International Airport

Bloemfontein, South Africa · Africa

Africa Africa/Johannesburg

3direct destinations

3airlines

2runways

2,559 mLongest runway

Bram Fischer International Airport (IATA: BFN, ICAO: FABL) (Afrikaans: Bram Fischer Internasionale Lughawe) is an airport serving Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit.

Location

29.093°S, 26.302°E · 1.358 m s. n. m. (4.457 ft)

General data

CountrySouth Africa

CityBloemfontein

IATA codeBFN

ICAO codeFABL

Coordinates29.093°S, 26.302°E

Elevation1.358 m s. n. m. (4.457 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Johannesburg

Runways2

Longest runway2,559 m

OperatorAirports Company South Africa

Direct destinations3

Official website

Runways · 2

02/20

Length2,559 m8,396 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

12/30

Length2,195 m7,201 ft

Width46 m151 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 4

Tower

120.800

ATIS (automatic information)

126.450

Approach

119.400APP WEST124.300APP EAST

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

The airport was opened in November 1961 and the runways were completed before the terminal buildings so that the South African Airforce could make use of them.

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.

Airlines operating here · 3

Other airlines with direct routes

Airlink CemAir FlySafair

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Johan Mynhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Bram Fischer International Airport (BFN). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BFN

MLA

“Bram Fischer International Airport (BFN).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BFN. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Bram Fischer International Airport (BFN). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BFN (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_bfn,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Bram Fischer International Airport (BFN)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BFN},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BFN}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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