CKS — Carajás Airport

Medium-sized airport in Parauapebas, Brazil.
IATA code
CKS
ICAO code
SBCJ
Size
medium
OurAirports class
Passengers
211,544
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
Nonstop routes
4
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC−3
America/Belem
Elevation
629 m
2,064 ft
Runways
1
Longest 2,000 m

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About CKS

Carajás Airport is a medium-sized airport serving Parauapebas, Brazil. It opened in 1982 and is run by Infraero. 211,544 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 4 nonstop routes from CKS.

Wikidata (CC0) · ANAC (CC BY). Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from CKS

Route Distance Passengers / year
CKS → CNF1,632 km 154,963
CKS → BEL551 km 56,212
CKS → MCP692 km 208
CKS → GIG1,984 km 161

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
MABJoão Correa da Rocha Airport127 km
AUXAraguaína Airport231 km
TURTucuruí Airport261 km
IMPPrefeito Renato Moreira Airport289 km
ATMAltamira Interstate Airport405 km

Distance from CKS to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
CKS → LHR7,929 km —
CKS → DXB11,850 km —
CKS → CDG7,947 km —
CKS → FRA8,377 km —
CKS → IST9,523 km —
CKS → AMS8,278 km —
CKS → JFK5,720 km —
CKS → ATL5,703 km —
CKS → LAX8,434 km —
CKS → SIN17,101 km —
CKS → HND16,597 km —
CKS → DOH11,471 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
10/282,000 m 45 mAsphalt

OurAirports (public domain). Sources

Location

Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil · -6.1178, -50.0034

Map (OpenStreetMap) Airport website Wikipedia

Questions

Carajás Airport has the IATA code CKS and the ICAO code SBCJ. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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