List of the busiest airports in Brazil
Rank Airport Location Total Passengers Annual change Capacity in use
1 Congonhas-São Paulo Airport São Paulo 18,459,191 7.6% 153.8%
2 São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport São Paulo 15,759,181 0.5% 95.5%
3 Brasília International Airport Brasília 9,699,911 2.9% 131.1%
4 Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport Rio de Janeiro 8,856,527 2.3% 59.0%
5 Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport Salvador 5,425,747 19.1% 90.9%
6 Guararapes-Gilberto Freyre International Airport Recife 3,953,845 9.7% 79.1%
7 Salgado Filho International Airport Porto Alegre 3,846,508 9.2% 63.1%
8 Tancredo Neves International Airport Belo Horizonte 3,727,501 28.8% 74.6%
9 Santos Dumont Airport Rio de Janeiro 3,533,177 0.8% 110.4%
10 Afonso Pena International Airport Curitiba 3,532,879 4.1% 100.9%
11 Pinto Martins International Airport Fortaleza 3,282,979 18.3% 109.4%
12 Val de Cães International Airport Belém 1,776,008 16.6% 65.8%
13 Eduardo Gomes International Airport Manaus 1,689,817 12.1% 93.1%
14 Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport Vitória 1,661,192 9.5% 296.6%
15 Hercílio Luz International Airport Florianópolis 1,630,141 5.2% 148.2%
2006 -- Brazil 's 15 busiest airports by passenger traffic [ 23 ]
The following is a list of the busiest airports in Brazil by aircraft movements (how busy the runways are) and passengers traffic (how busy the terminals are). For each airport, the lists cite the principal city associated with the airport, not (necessarily) the municipality where the airport is physically located. The tables consider only airports operated by Infraero, DAESP and Terminais Aéreos de Maringá - SBMG S.A.