Airports
Improvements Coming to Two Brazil GA Airports
PAX Aeroportos takes over SBMT and SBJR airport operations
Campo de Marte
Campo de Marte is one of two airports that have been contracted to by PAX Aeroportos. (Photo: Peter Louiz, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

PAX Aeroportos will begin operating São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro’s principal general aviation airports—Campo de Marte (SBMT) and Jacarepaguá (SBJR)—in the month after LABACE 2023. The airports were won at an auction last year by investment firm XP Investimentos, which created the PAX subsidiary to maintain, operate, and expand the airports during the 30-year concessions.

According to PAX Aeroportos, it has studied not only the initial contract obligations but also current and future operational needs, to plan investments, including evaluating upgrading both airports’ operating categories, with the goal of making them “the best executive aviation and offshore airports in Brazil.”