Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport

ICAO SBJP7.1487°S 34.9506°W66 m / 217 ftLarge airport

Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport (IATA: JPA, ICAO: SBJP) is a large airport in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. It opened on 20 Aug 1957. It has one runway, 2,515 m (8,251 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 1.2 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1957–1957

20 AUG 1957

OpenedPresidente Castro Pinto International Airport opens.

From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

16/34

LENGTH2,515 m8,251 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

1.1M

1.2M

1.3M

1.4M

1.3M

753K

1.0M

1.2M

111213141516171819202122

Routes

6 destinations · 2 countries

Year-round6

SSADeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos739 km459 mi BSBPresidente Juscelino Kubitschek International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos1,713 km1,064 mi GIGRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos1,955 km1,215 mi GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos2,189 km1,360 mi CGHCongonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos2,218 km1,378 mi EZEEzeiza International Airport - Ministro PistariniArgentina · Gol Transportes Aéreos3,909 km2,429 mi

Seasonal1

GIGRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil1,955 km1,215 mi

Most destinationsGol Transportes Aéreos 6LATAM Brasil 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from JPA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Presidente Castro Pinto International Airport” (revision of 22 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers1.2M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#746of 3,974 · #60 South America · #26 BR Longest runway2,515 m8,251 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,256of 29,823 · #133 South America · #32 BR Elevation66 m217 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,424of 43,341 · =7,623 South America · =5,160 BR AgeOpened 19572026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,248of 15,079 · =67 South America · =36 BR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =31 BR

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels

APPPESSOA CON118.300

TWRPESSOA TWR118.300