PET — João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport

Medium-sized airport in Pelotas, Brazil.
IATA code
PET
ICAO code
SBPK
Size
medium
OurAirports class
Passengers
78,163
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
Nonstop routes
3
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC−3
America/Sao_Paulo
Elevation
18 m
59 ft
Runways
1
Longest 1,980 m

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About PET

João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport is a medium-sized airport serving Pelotas, Brazil. It is run by Infraero. 78,163 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 3 nonstop routes from PET.

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

Busiest nonstop routes from PET

Route Distance Passengers / year
PET → GRU1,085 km 36,793
PET → CGH1,056 km 27,803
PET → POA221 km 13,567

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
POAPorto Alegre-Salgado Filho International Airport221 km
RIASanta Maria Airport258 km
CELCanela Airport298 km
CXJHugo Cantergiani Regional Airport301 km
RVYPres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido Binational Airport310 km

Distance from PET to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
PET → LHR10,517 km —
PET → DXB13,039 km —
PET → CDG10,466 km —
PET → FRA10,859 km —
PET → IST11,585 km —
PET → AMS10,835 km —
PET → JFK8,310 km —
PET → ATL7,980 km —
PET → LAX10,038 km —
PET → SIN15,833 km —
PET → HND18,823 km —
PET → DOH12,695 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
07/251,980 m 42 mConcrete

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Location

Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil · -31.7172, -52.3278

Map (OpenStreetMap) Airport website Wikipedia

Questions

João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport has the IATA code PET and the ICAO code SBPK. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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