Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport guide

Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport (IATA: IOS, ICAO: SBIL) serves Ilhéus and the cacao-growing south of Bahia, Brazil. It sits about 3 km from the city centre on the Ilhéus-Olivença road, with access from the BR-415. The airport takes its name from the novelist Jorge Amado, who set many of his books in the region, and has carried the name since March 2002.

The airfield opened in 1939 as Aeroporto do Pontal. Seaplanes of Syndicato Condor had landed at Ilhéus during the 1930s, and the runway was paved in 1950. Infraero ran the airport from 1981 to 2017, the State of Bahia held it from 2017 to 2018, and Socicam has operated it since 2018.

A renovation finished in July 2024 enlarged the terminal from 2,863 m² to more than 4,500 m² and raised capacity to 1.2 million passengers a year, more than double the earlier figure. Socicam invested more than R$ 60 million in the works. Traffic reached a record of more than 674,000 passengers in 2024, with over 5,100 commercial flights, and the airport handled 633,806 passengers in 2025. Azul, Gol and LATAM Brasil connect it with São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. The single asphalt runway, 11/29, measures 1,577 m.