📋 Tender Overview
The Brazilian air sector is experiencing a moment of expansion and the highlight is in the Southeast. From January to August 2025, the regions airports moved 82.9 million passengers, a growth of 9.1% over the same period of 2024, when 76 million travelers were recorded. In August alone, 11 million shipments and landings were the largest monthly volume since the beginning of the historical series of the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac), in 2000.
Most of this flow corresponds to the domestic market. Between January and August this year, 67.2 million passengers flew within Brazil using Southeast airports, compared to 61.8 million in the same period of 2024. The increase reflects the combination of higher supply of seats by airlines and the resumption of demand for tourism and corporate travel.
Southeast aviation growth shows the strength of the region as Brazils main gateway to the world. We are working to further expand this connectivity, strengthening large hubs and, at the same time, creating conditions for regional airports to also gain new routes. This means more tourism, more business and more opportunities for the Brazilian population, celebrated Ports and Airports Minister Silvio Costa Filho.
This means more tourism, more business and more opportunities for the Brazilian population.
On international flights, the Southeast maintained its leadership position and presented robust growth. From January to August 2025, the regions airports registered 15.7 million shipments and landings on international routes, compared to 14 million in the same period of 2024, an increase of 11.8%. In practice, this means that almost 7 out of 10 international passengers circulating through Brazil pass through Southeast terminals.
The leadership is pulled by large hubs such as Guarulhos (SP) and Galeao (RJ), which concentrate most of the countrys connections with Europe, North America and Asia. But the advance also reflects the gradual growth of airports such as Confins (MG) and Vitoria (ES), which expand routes and diversify the regions international air network.
Highlights of Aviation in the Southeast
Diversity of profiles
The Southeast concentrates different vocations that explain the diversity of air movement:
Sao Paulo remains as the main center of national and international connections, articulating business and tourism.
Rio de Janeiro combines the force of leisure tourism and events with connectivity for Latin America, Europe and North America.
Minas Gerais, with Confins International Airport, consolidates itself as a regional hub and gradually expands its direct connections.
Espirito Santo, through Vitoria airport, strengthens regional aviation and has advanced in logistics integration.
This airport network ensures that Southeast acts as a gateway to millions of Brazilians and foreigners, strengthening air connectivity across the country.
For passengers, it means more options for schedules and destinations, faster connections and more competitive tariffs. For the country, it represents a direct impact on tourism, business and job creation in different sectors, from air transport to the service chain that orbits around airports.
Special Advisory of Social Communication Ministry of Ports and Airports
