João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport

ICAO SBPK31.7172°S 52.3278°W18 m / 59 ftMedium airport

João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport (IATA: PET, ICAO: SBPK) is a medium airport in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has one runway, 1,980 m (6,496 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 63 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25051° / 231° · LIT

LENGTH1,980 m6,496 ftWIDTH42 m138 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2011–2022

34K

54K

47K

37K

29K

34K

32K

10K

25K

63K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

CGHCongonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos1,058 km657 mi GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil1,087 km675 mi

Most destinationsGol Transportes Aéreos 1LATAM Brasil 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PET. From the Wikipedia article “Pelotas International Airport” (revision of 4 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers63K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,994of 3,974 · #188 South America · #71 BR Longest runway1,980 m6,496 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,130of 29,823 · =308 South America · #93 BR Elevation18 m59 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,700of 43,341 · =8,338 South America · =5,393 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

1 channels

AFISRDO125.900