You are welcome - there is a lot of information on there which is of course open to individual interpretation and is only a tiny part of the research we do to compare the investment potential of different locations.

I'd be very interested to hear other peoples interpretations of the figures.

On the same site you have the description of each airport, construction dates, number of flights (although the carriers are often not updated and many are wrong), runway size, cargo space and passenger capacity. You will see if you compare annual passenger capacity to numbers of arrivals that according to their figures, the top 4 are operating at a combined average of 106% of capacity.

Also, bear in mind that the numbers for international arrivals are the number of people who passed through the international side of the passport controls, so if someone like Ralhpj (assuming he has a residents visa) arrives at any airport in the Northeast, regardless of whether it's a direct or an indirect flight, he'll be counted as a "Domestic" arrival even though he's not a Brazilian citizen. That is probably why Aracajú shows only 4 international arrivals for the yearly figures of 2007.

Also interesting is that although some people do mention Joao Pessoa, no one on the forums has mentioned Alagoas yet but it seems to be quite popular (although nowhere near as popular as the top 4) with international arrivals - does anyone know anything about that state? Almost all of the arrivals outside of the top four were to Maceió in Alagoas... I've been told they do some charters now and again but couldn't verify this.

I doubt the figures are 100% correct (or else not a single international passenger flew into Joao Pessoa last year) but they are still representative.

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