FLYING HIGH

Hailing from the East Rand, I am ashamed to admit that I have never been to the Rand Airport before and after my visit on Sunday I am confident to say that I will be going there more often and will recommend it to anyone.

Our view from our table

The Rand Airport is a throwback to another era and the Harvard Café is beautifully positioned very close to the runway so you can admire the planes as they taxi to and from the runway only a stone’s throw away from your table. Nothing beats a Sunday breakfast buffet with good friends, sunshine and seeing a Tiger Moth in flight - Mart.



A brief History
Rand Airport is an airport in Germiston, South Africa. It was constructed in the 1920s as the main airport for Johannesburg, but the city outgrew it and replaced the airport firstly with Palmietfontein Airport in the late 1940s, then with the larger Jan Smuts International Airport (now OR TAMBO) in the 1950s.

South African Airways has donated two Boeing 747s to the South African Airways Museum Society which are on display at the airport. They can be clearly seen on Google Earth adjacent to the threshold of runway 29.