Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues International Airport is the airport serving Palmas, Brazil. The airport is named after Brigadier Lysias Augusto Rodrigues (1896–1957), one of the founding figures of the Brazilian Air Force and crucial to the integration of Tocantins to Brazil via the passenger air services of the Brazilian Air Force.
It is operated by ASUR.
History The airport was built as a replacement for the provisory Old Palmas Airport.
It was commissioned on October 5, 2001. It has an area of 23,739,952.00 m2 which is enough to future expansions. The terminal has 12,300 m2 and a capacity for 2 100,000 passengers/year.
Previously operated by Infraero, on April 7, 2021 CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport. On April 26, 2025 CCR was rebranded as Motiva.
On November 18, 2025 the entire airports portfolio of Motiva was sold to the Mexican airport operator ASUR. Motiva will cease to operate airports. The transaction was completed on August 31, 2026.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics Following are the number of passenger, aircraft and cargo movements at the airport, according to Infraero (2007-2021) and Motiva (2022-2025) reports:
Year Passenger Aircraft Cargo (t) 2025 747,178 14% 12,109 28% 2024 656,040 4% 9,497 14% 2023 682,238 11,104 1,554 2022 516,414 9,389 1,307 2021 444,719 69% 9,320 35% 1,631 52% 2020 263,819 55% 6,927 38% 1,076 64% 2019 588,198 13% 11,144 14% 2,979 3% 2018 675,971 3% 12,914 2% 2,887 28% 2017 654,397 6% 12,631 3% 2,260 19% 2016 617,703 4% 12,219 18% 1,899 9% 2015 644,199 14% 14,916 13% 2,097 1% 2014 634,128 10% 17,242 10% 2,127 7% 2013 576,633 19,172 5% 2,295 26% 2012 579,395 15% 18,266 4% 3,102 27% 2011 503,408 29% 17,534 2% 4,225 27% 2010 389,217 30% 17,161 48% 3,331 20% 2009 298,484 15% 11,603 4% 2,775 10% 2008 259,362 11% 12,104 19% 2,526 24% 2007 232,885 10,192 2,043 Note: : 2022 series provided by CCR is incomplete, lacking data for the months of January, February and part of March.
Access The airport is located south of downtown Palmas.
See also
List of airports in Brazil
References
External links
Accident history for PMW at Aviation Safety Network