AAX — Romeu Zema Airport
Medium-sized airport in Araxá, Brazil.
- IATA code
- AAX
- ICAO code
- SBAX
- Size
- medium
- OurAirports class
- Passengers
- 3,196
- Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
- Nonstop routes
- 1
- With open traffic data
- Time zone
- UTC−3
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Elevation
- 999 m
- 3,278 ft
- Runways
- 1
- Longest 1,900 m
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About AAX
Romeu Zema Airport is a medium-sized airport serving Araxá, Brazil. 3,196 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 1 nonstop route from AAX.
ANAC (CC BY). Sources
Busiest nonstop routes from AAX
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| AAX → CNF | 314 km | 3,196 |
Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports, ANAC (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) for routes in and out of Brazil. Routes outside these are not counted.
Nearest airports
| Code | Airport | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| UBA | Mário de Almeida Franco Airport | 108 km |
| UDI | Ten. Cel. Aviador César Bombonato Airport | 153 km |
| RAO | Leite Lopes Airport | 194 km |
| PYT | Pedro Rabelo de Souza Airport | 258 km |
| CLV | Nelson Ribeiro Guimarães Airport | 268 km |
Distance from AAX to the major hubs
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 1,900 m | 30 m | Asphalt |
OurAirports (public domain). Sources
Location
Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil · -19.5632, -46.9604
Questions
Romeu Zema Airport has the IATA code AAX and the ICAO code SBAX. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.
AAX is a medium-sized airport in Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil, at -19.5632, -46.9604, 999 m above sea level.
AAX is in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, UTC−3.
3,196 passengers in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026, according to ANAC, the Brazilian civil aviation agency (scheduled flights).
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