BrazilBrazilian airlines

South America’s largest aviation market, with LATAM Brasil, GOL and Azul and the São Paulo/Guarulhos hub.

9 airlines

Network airlines

Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.

Avianca Brasil

O6 / ONE

Historic airline from Brazil: founded in 1998 as the air taxi company OceanAir for the oil industry, from 2010 as Avianca Brasil the country’s fourth-largest airline and a Star Alliance member – shut down in 2019.

Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras

AD / AZU

Brazil’s airline with the colorful type mix: Embraer E-Jets, ATR turboprops, A320neo and A330neo, founded in 2008 by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, with a hub in Campinas and flights to Lisbon and Porto.

LATAM Airlines Brasil

JJ / TAM

Brazil’s largest airline, formerly TAM: Airbus A320 family at home, Boeing 777-300ER and 787 on long-haul routes to Frankfurt, Lisbon, Milan and other destinations in Europe.

Panair do Brasil

PB / PAB

Historic airline from Rio de Janeiro: Panair do Brasil began in 1929 as an offshoot of NYRBA, belonged to Pan Am for a long time, flew Constellations and DC-8s to Europe and was shut down by the military government in 1965.

Transbrasil

TR / TBA

Historic Brazilian airline (1955–2001): the food group Sadia’s air service became Transbrasil – based in Brasília, with a rainbow on the tail, an all-Boeing jet fleet and an abrupt end in December 2001.

Varig

RG / VRG

Brazil’s historic flag carrier: founded in 1927 in Porto Alegre by a German emigrant, South America’s largest airline for decades, in Star Alliance from 1997 – and broken up in bankruptcy proceedings in 2006.

VASP

VP / VSP

Historic airline from São Paulo: founded in 1933, owned by the state for decades, a major operator of the Boeing 737-200, briefly on long-haul with the MD-11 after privatization in 1990 – and grounded in 2005.

Low-cost carriers

Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.

GOL Linhas Aéreas

G3 / GLO

Brazil’s big low-cost airline from Rio de Janeiro: a pure Boeing 737 fleet for a quarter century, Chapter 11 proceedings in 2024/25, part of the Abra Group with Avianca – and since 2026 its first Airbus A330s for long-haul flights to Europe.

Regional airlines

Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.

Voepass Linhas Aéreas

2Z / PTB

Historic regional airline from Brazil: founded in 1995 as Passaredo in Ribeirão Preto, later flying ATR turboprops as Voepass – after the crash of Flight 2283 in August 2024, the ANAC authority revoked its operating certificate in 2025.

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