Maintenance: Airline-type equipment

Lav service: Yes

Catering: Yes, airlines

Fees: Landing, parking, and handling

Security: Major commercial airport with 24-hr. monitoring; controlled access.

Ground Transportation: All types. Recommend vetted cars and limos.

Distance and driving time to downtown: 90-min. or longer, depending on surface traffic

By David Esler david.desler@comcast.net

Since the abolishment of apartheid in 1994 and the reformation of the Republic of South Africa's government, the continent's most southernmost nation has been open for business, both regionally and internationally, and trade has been deemed “vital.”