📋 Tender Overview
About 9.9 million passengers passed the main airports in the Southeast region only in April 2025, on domestic and international flights - a number that reinforces the regions leadership in national air transport. There were 4.99 million shipments and 4.94 million landings, according to data from the demand and offer report of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). The number represents an increase of 10.4% compared to the same period of 2024. In the domestic market, there were 8.1 million tourists embarked on terminals in the region, which represents a high of 9.6% compared to the same period last year.
The practically balanced movement between those who arrive and who leaves reveals the strategic importance of the Southeast as a pole of logistics connection and economic integration with the rest of the country and with international markets.
According to the Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho, the numbers confirm the importance of the region for the Brazilian business and tourism economy. In the Southeast, regional airports connect millions of Brazilians to large centers and move the local economy, generating jobs, income and new opportunities. Our commitment is increasingly strengthening this mesh, ensuring quality infrastructure and more accessibility to air transport in all regions, said the minister.
Domestic Market The Guarulhos International Airport (SP) led the movement in the month, with 2.33 million passengers, representing 28.7% of the total recorded in the region. Following are Congonhas Airport (SP), with 1.8 million, and Confins Airport (MG), with 986,000 passengers.
Guarulhos follows as the countrys leading airport hub, with central role in both international and domestic air network connections.
Regional airports of the large terminals, Southeast air network is strengthened by important regional airports such as Campinas (SP), Vitoria (ES) and Uberlandia (MG). Even with proportionally lower flow, these terminals are essential to expand access to air transport and boost the economic development of medium cities.
The integration of regional airports with large national hubs is a strategic vector to promote the balanced Southeast development. By expanding the connectivity of medium cities with the countrys main economic centers, we strengthen logistics, attract investments and encourage the internalization of growth, in a planned and sustainable way, says Vinicius Lima, General Management Coordinator and Institutional Articulation of the National Secretariat of Storage. Civil (SAC).
Together, the Sao Paulo airports - Guarulhos (2.33 million), Congonhas (1.89 million), Campinas (942 thousand) and Ribeirao Preto (54 thousand) - concentrate more than half of air movement throughout the region, totaling 5.23 million passengers in April, equivalent to 64.2% of the total recorded in the Southeast.
Southeast air network strategic infrastructure plays an essential role in the functioning of key economic sectors, such as:
Business Tourism - with large fairs, congresses and events in the capitals;
Foreign Trade - Driven by the load terminals in Guarulhos and Confins;
Financial services and technology - strongly concentrated in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro.
With a robust infrastructure, dynamic airports and growing demand, air transport in the Southeast follows as a strategic vector of mobility, competitiveness and integration with the global market. The expectation for the coming months is even greater growth, with the beginning of the period of high winter season and large events in the capitals, reinforcing the role of aviation as a motor of regional and national development.
Special Advisory of Social Communication Ministry of Ports and Airports
