{"id":143100,"date":"2016-11-13T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143100"},"modified":"2016-11-13T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T07:58:41","slug":"guptas-are-trying-to-capture-a-private-airport-terminal-for-sas-super-rich-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/143100\/guptas-are-trying-to-capture-a-private-airport-terminal-for-sas-super-rich-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Guptas are trying to capture a private airport terminal for SA&#8217;s super-rich: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultra-rich and famous have access to a private seven-star airport terminal at OR Tambo International, which includes lounges, luxury suites, showers, a gym, and a spa.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-star airport terminal is currently the subject of a dispute between the Oppenheimer family and the Gupta family.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times reported that the Gupta family is using its influence to delay permission for international flights to the terminal, with the aim of ultimately controlling the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal already serves domestic flights and is controlled by the Oppenheimer family\u2019s Fireblade Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Fireblade Aviation, which launched the facility in 2014, aims to host a world-class facility for business aviation at OR Tambo.<\/p>\n<p>The Oppenheimer family also offers visitors a full aircraft charter service from the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>For a look at what the private terminal and its facilities offer, check out the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/186803-behind-the-scenes-look-at-private-terminal-for-ultra-rich-at-or-tambo-airport.html\">gallery compiled by MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Hawks investigation into the Guptas grinds to a halt\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/142840\/hawks-investigation-into-the-guptas-grinds-to-a-halt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hawks investigation into the Guptas grinds to a halt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultra-rich and famous have access to a private seven-star airport terminal at OR Tambo International, which includes lounges, luxury suites, showers, a gym, and a spa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":143102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-143100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143104,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143100\/revisions\/143104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}