The Guarujá Civil Metropolitan Airport is an airport under construction to serve

Guarujá Guarujá (; ) is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of the Baixada Santista. The population is 311,116 (2022 preliminary census count) in an area of . This place name comes from the Tupi lan ...

, Santos and the Santos Metropolitan Region in

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. It is operated by

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. Some of its facilities will be shared with the Santos Air Force Base of the

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History

Plans to use the site of the Santos Air Force Base also as a civil aerodrome started in 2018. In 2019 the Ministry of Infrastructure and the

signed the agreement. On 3 July 2020

started to manage the civil portion of the site and to conduct works regarding the construction of a terminal. The facility is expected to open in mid-2025.

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