| Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport | |
| Nativename: | Portuguese: Aeroporto Orlando Bezerra de Menezes |
| Iata: | JDO |
| Icao: | SBJU |
| Lid: | CE0002 |
| Type: | Public |
| City-Served: | Juazeiro do Norte |
| Timezone: | BRT |
| Metric-Elev: | yes |
| Elevation-F: | 1,342 |
| Elevation-M: | 409 |
| Coordinates: | -7.2192°N -39.2694°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
| Pushpin Label: | JDO |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
| Metric-Rwy: | yes |
| R1-Number: | 13/31 |
| R1-Length-F: | 6,365 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,940 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2023 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 484,761 5% |
| Stat2-Header: | Aircraft Operations |
| Stat2-Data: | 7,064 4% |
| Stat3-Header: | Metric tonnes of cargo |
| Stat3-Data: | 584 17% |
| Footnotes: | Statistics: AENA[1] Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC,[3] DECEA[4] |
Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport is the airport serving Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil. It is named after a local politician and entrepreneur. The airport serves southern Ceará, southeastern Piauí, northeastern Pernambuco, and the sertão of Paraíba.
The airport is operated by AENA.
The airport was inaugurated on September 15, 1954 as Cariri Regional Airport. It was administrated by the municipal government of Juazeiro do Norte for several years until it was transferred to the State Government.
Since the eighties it has regularly received flights, starting commercial operations with the airlines VARIG and VASP.
The airport had been operated by Infraero from 2002 until 2019. On March 15, 2019, AENA won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.[5]
Note:
Flight operated with Voepass equipment on behalf of LATAM Brasil.
The airport is located 6km (04miles) from downtown Juazeiro do Norte.