PalmasâÂÂBrigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues International Airport is the airport serving Palmas, Brazil. The airport is named after Brigadier Lysias Augusto Rodrigues (1896âÂÂ1957), one of the founding figures of the Brazilian Air Force and crucial to the integration of Tocantins to Brazil via the passenger air services of the Brazilian Air Force.
It is operated by Motiva.
The airport was built as a replacement for the provisory Old Palmas Airport.
It was commissioned on October 5, 2001. It has an area of 23,739,952.00 m<sup>2</sup> which is enough to future expansions. The terminal has 12,300 m<sup>2</sup> and a capacity for 2 100,000 passengers/year.
Previously operated by Infraero, on April 7, 2021 CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport. On April 26, 2025 CCR was rebranded as Motiva.
On November 18, 2025 the entire airports portfolio of Motiva was sold to the Mexican airport operator ASUR. Motiva will cease to operate airports. On February 10, 2026 the transaction was still pending government approval.
Following are the number of passenger, aircraft and cargo movements at the airport, according to Infraero (2007-2021) and Motiva (2022-2025) reports:
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The airport is located south of downtown Palmas.