Santos Dumont Airport - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Santos Dumont Airport sits right on the edge of the bay in central Rio de Janeiro, next to the city's financial district, so planes come and go low over the water with the city's hills and towers all around them.

Its first runway was built on land reclaimed from the sea in 1934, and the airport opened two years later. The runways are short, the longer one just 4,341 feet (1,323 m), and today it's mainly a domestic airport, with international flights using Galeão instead.

In 1959 it became one end of the Ponte Aérea, the Rio to São Paulo air shuttle, said to be the first of its kind in the world, and in 2025 about 6.2 million passengers passed through.

Did You Know? The airport is named after aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, who found pocket watches impractical while flying, so his friend Louis Cartier made him a wristwatch.

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