Flights to Sao Paulo

Airport Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport GRU

Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport - Governador André Franco Montoro is currently the largest and most important airport in Brazil as well as in Latin America. Besides Guarulhos, the metropolitan region is also the location of the second largest airport in Brazil, Congonhas, which is 5 miles south of the inner city. Additionally the airport Campinas-Viracopos, which the state owned airport operator INFRAERO is planning to extensively expand in the coming years (due to make it the largest airport in South America) is 55 miles north west.

• URL: Official website
• Parking: Yes; paid short and long-term parking for about 3100 vehicles.
• Nearby cities: Guarulhos (7 km), Itaquaquecetuba (14 km), Ferraz de Vasconcelos (16 km), Poá (17 km), Suzano (20 km), São Paulo (21 km), São Caetano do Sul (23 km), Mauá (26 km), Santo André (27 km), Franco da Rocha (29 km)
• Directions by car: The airport is about 20 miles north east of the inner city and easily accessible via the motorway BR-116/SP-060 and then the motorway SP-019.

Location

First in use in 1985, the airport is about 20 miles north east of Sao Paolo inner city in the metropolitan region of Guarulhos. By car take the BR-116/SP-060 and SP-019 motorways. Coming from the north (Nazare Paulista) take the SP-036. there are a number of bus routes that stop in front of the terminal serving various destinations in the area.

The airport was built to ease the burden of air traffic on Congonhas Airport and to improve international air traffic, as until then almost all international machines were only able to land at Campinas Viracopos Airport about 55 miles away.