Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport

Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International is the airport serving Brasília — Brazil's federal capital since 1960 and a UNESCO World Heritage city for its Niemeyer modernist master plan — and functions as the country's third-busiest airport and a critical domestic hub at the geographic center of the nation. Its high plateau location at 1,066 m (3,497 ft) elevation and position roughly equidistant from Brazil's major coastal cities give BSB a natural connecting role that Azul, LATAM, and GOL all exploit; for travelers between the northeast (Salvador, Fortaleza, Recife) and the south (Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Florianópolis), BSB is often the shortest routing. Two parallel runways — 3,300 m (10,827 ft) and 3,200 m (10,499 ft) — and a modernized two-concourse terminal support approximately 74 routes to 43 destinations via 9 airlines. The route network is overwhelmingly domestic; international service is limited to Lisbon (TAP), Panama (Copa), Miami (American Airlines seasonal), and Buenos Aires (LATAM). Azul Linhas Aéreas operates a major secondary hub here and runs a dense feeder network of E-Jets and ATRs to regional destinations across the Cerrado and Amazon. The airport was built concurrently with the planned capital, and Oscar Niemeyer's civic-modernist aesthetic is visible in the terminal's clean horizontal lines. A Brazilian federal government concession transferred operations from Infraero to Inframerica (later replaced by current operator) in 2012 as part of Brazil's pre-World Cup airport privatization wave, driving substantial capacity investment. Passenger traffic reached approximately 16M in 2023. BSB is also an important government-aviation airport, hosting the Brazilian Air Force's VIP transport fleet, the presidential aircraft, and foreign state visits.