Aviation in Brazil

What the data shows

Brazil is flying more than before the pandemic. 134.5 million passengers flew in the last 12 months, 5.5% more than in the previous 12 months, adding up domestic (103.8 million) and international flights (30.7 million). In 2025 the total reached 130.5 million, above the 119.2 million of 2019.

The domestic market belongs to three airlines. LATAM, Gol and Azul carry almost every passenger inside the country, and domestic flights leave with 83% of their seats filled.

Eight in ten flights leave on time. In the last 12 months, 82% of scheduled flights operated left up to 15 minutes late, and 3.1% of scheduled flights were cancelled.

How to use it

• Search. At the top of the dashboard you can look up any airport by code (GRU, CGH), name or city.
• Route finder. Pick two airports and see the route both ways: passengers, load factor, airlines, flight times and days, punctuality and the history since 2000.
• Direct links. Every airport and route has its own address, so you can share exactly what you are looking at.

Methodology

• Sources. ANAC Air Transport Statistics (monthly, since 2000), Active Scheduled Flights (VRA, flight by flight, since 2015) and the public aerodrome register. IATA codes and coordinates of foreign airports come from the open project OurAirports.
• Passengers. Revenue passengers per flight leg. A connecting passenger counts once on each leg, as in ANAC's statistics. Airport traffic is boardings plus deplanings.
• Load factor. Revenue passenger-kilometres (RPK) divided by available seat-kilometres (ASK).
• Punctuality. An on-time flight is one operated with up to 15 minutes of departure delay against the schedule. Cancellations are counted over scheduled flights.
• Updates. The dashboard is refreshed every month, right after ANAC releases the previous month's data.