Corumbá International Airport
Corumbá International Airport (CMG)
Corumbá International Airport was one of the first to be built in the interior of Brazil. Opened on September 21, 1960, during the city's anniversary celebrations, the airport has accompanied the growth of the city, which is located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, strategically on the triple border between Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia.
The airport receives visitors from different backgrounds, attracted by natural resources, iron ore and manganese deposits, ecotourism, business tourism and fishing. So much diversity considerably increased the flow of passengers at the airport, transforming the city and the entire region into an important development hub.
A pioneer in the country's Central-West Region, the airport began to be managed by Aena Brasil in November 2023, after the concessionaire purchased a block of 11 Brazilian airports in an auction by the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac), held in 2022. As it already manages, since 2020, six terminals in the Northeast, Aena Brasil runs, in total, 17 airports in the country. The company is part of the Spanish group Aena, considered the largest airport operator in the world in terms of number of passengers.
Corumbá was one of the first cities in the interior of Brazil to be served by commercial aviation. In 1933, Empresa de Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul, formerly Sindicato Condor, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, operated a pioneering line that connected Corumbá to Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso. The moment would go down in history as the country's first commercial flight, piloted by a Brazilian. The author of the feat was Pernambuco commander Severiano Lins, invited to be commander of Sindicato Condor, the first commercial airline in Brazil.
Later, this airline, which was initially subsidized by the state government, became the final stage of the São Paulo-Três Lagoas-Campo Grande-Corumbá-Cuiabá route. To house and allow maintenance work on the trimotor that traveled the route, the Federal Government built, in 1937, a hangar. Later, the place hosted the first passenger terminal at Corumbá airport.
After its inauguration in 1960, the airport was incorporated by Infraero in 1975, when the company began several renovations at the unit, such as the expansion and implementation of the lighting system for the maneuvering apron and aircraft parking area, the construction of a cargo warehouse, shelter for vehicles, resurfacing of the landing and take-off runway with asphalt concrete, among other important repairs.
One of the most recent works took place in 2016. At the time, pavement maintenance and revitalization of the horizontal signage on the runway were carried out.
To enhance the facade of the passenger terminal, in 2004, the airport received the sculpture “O Monumento Pantanal de Corumbá”, by artist Cleir Ávila, highlighting one of the most beautiful birds in the southern Pantanal of Mato Grosso – the macaw. Another well-known animal from the region, the pacu fish, inspired the architecture of the passenger terminal that came into operation in 2001, as well as the runway, expanded to 2 thousand square meters in length.
During the next 30 years, the concession period, Aena Brasil will modernize Corumbá International Airport, preparing the unit for the demands of the present and future, guaranteeing its users increasingly comfort and safety.