Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues International Airport | |
Nativename: | Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues|italic=yes |
Iata: | PMW |
Icao: | SBPJ |
Lid: | TO0001 |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Palmas |
Timezone: | BRT |
Metric-Elev: | yes |
Elevation-F: | 774 |
Elevation-M: | 236 |
Coordinates: | -10.29°N -48.3578°W |
Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
Pushpin Label: | PMW |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
Metric-Rwy: | yes |
R1-Number: | 14/32 |
R1-Length-F: | 8,202 |
R1-Length-M: | 2,500 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat-Year: | 2021 |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 444,719 69% |
Stat2-Header: | Aircraft Operations |
Stat2-Data: | 9,320 35% |
Stat3-Header: | Metric tonnes of cargo |
Stat3-Data: | 1,631 52% |
Footnotes: | Statistics: Infraero[1] Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC,[3] DECEA[4] |
Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues International Airport is the airport serving Palmas, Brazil. The airport is named after Brigadier Lysias Augusto Rodrigues (1896–1957), one of the founding figures of the Brazilian Air Force and crucial to the integration of Tocantins to Brazil via the passenger air services of the Brazilian Air Force.[5]
It is operated by CCR.
The airport was commissioned on October 5, 2001. It has an area of 23,739,952.00 m2 which is enough to future expansions. The terminal has 12,300 m2 and a capacity for 2 100,000 passengers/year.
Previously operated by Infraero, on April 7, 2021 CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.[6]
The airport is located 20km (10miles) from downtown Palmas.