# Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)

> Rio de Janeiro, BR · IATA: SDU · ICAO: SBRJ · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `SDU` |
| ICAO | `SBRJ` |
| City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Country | BR |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 3 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | -22.91050, -43.16310 |

## Description

Few airports sit closer to a city's downtown than Santos Dumont (SDU, ICAO SBRJ), yet for all its central location it carries almost no freight. Hugging the Guanabara Bay shoreline beside Rio's financial district, it runs a high-frequency domestic shuttle – above all the air-bridge to São Paulo. A short waterfront runway and a demanding approach cap operations at narrowbody, military and general-aviation aircraft, around 23 movements an hour. Air cargo for Rio is handled instead at Galeão International (GIG) to the north, which has the freighters, customs and terminals SDU lacks. The takeaway for forwarders: passengers at SDU, cargo at GIG.

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