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ICAO FAEL · IATA ELS

King Phalo Airport

East London, South Africa

Local time --:-- Africa/Johannesburg
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4 nonstop routes · dashed: longest, to Cape Town
Elevation435ft · 133 m
Longest runway6,362ft
Runways2
Nonstop to4airports
Countries1reached nonstop
AirportDomestic

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Longest nonstop flights

Airlines with the most routes

  • Safair4
  • Comair2
  • CemAir1
  • South African Airways1
  • Airlink1
  • Singapore Airlines1
Africa 4

6 airlines fly nonstop from ELS. Route counts are per destination.

Runway layout to scale

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Farthest nonstop861 km

The longest route from ELS goes to Cape Town, about 1h 30m in the air.

Nearest airport53 km

Bisho Airport is the closest airport on SkyTracker.

Other side of the world1,401 km

Dig straight through the Earth and the nearest airport to where you come out is Kaneohe Bay MCAS (Marion E. Carl Field) Airport, United States.

Elevation53%

of the world's airports sit lower than ELS.

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More about ELS: runways, radio, codes and every destination

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
11 / 296,362 ft 1,939 m150 ftAsphaltLit
06 / 245,200 ft 1,585 m150 ftAsphaltLit

A runway is named after its compass heading divided by ten: 09 points east (090°) and 27 west (270°). L, C and R mark the left, centre and right of parallel runways.

Radio frequencies MHz

  • Approach120.1
  • ATIS126.45
  • Tower118.3

Codes and location

All 4 nonstop destinations