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Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (SBJV/JOI) serves the city of Joinville in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, and is named after a local entrepreneur and politician. It offers a single hard-surfaced runway with an ILS on one direction, and handles scheduled airline traffic alongside general aviation movements, making it a useful VFR and IFR destination for pilots operating in the region.
Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport is the airport serving Joinville, a major industrial city in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It has carried its current name since December 2003, honouring a local entrepreneur and politician, and today is a commercial airport handling scheduled services from carriers including Azul, Gol and LATAM alongside general aviation traffic. For the simulator pilot, its single instrument-equipped runway and mix of airline and light traffic make it a worthwhile and moderately busy regional destination in southern Brazil.
The airport lies close to the city of Joinville, with the terminal area situated some 12 kilometres from the downtown area. The field sits at low elevation near the coast of Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil, at coordinates 26.2231 S, 48.7978 W.
The airport has a single physical runway, 15/33, of 5,043 feet in length with a hard surface and runway lighting. The 33 direction is equipped with an ILS, giving an instrument approach into the field, while runway 15 is a visual-only direction.
Air traffic services are provided by AFIS, with the tower frequency listed as 118 MHz. The runway 33 approach is served by an ILS, providing instrument guidance for arrivals from that direction.
Infraero operated the airport from 1974 until 2021. The current name was adopted on 22 December 2003 in honour of a local entrepreneur and politician, and a new terminal building was commissioned on 8 March 2004. On 7 April 2021 CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport, with CCR being rebranded as Motiva on 26 April 2025; on 18 November 2025 Motiva's entire airports portfolio, including Joinville, was sold to the Mexican operator ASUR, though as of early 2026 the transaction remained subject to government approval. The airport's approach path has been the scene of at least one serious accident: on 13 September 1996 a Helisul Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, registration PT-WAV, operating a cargo flight from Porto Alegre, struck a hill on final approach into Joinville, killing both crew members, a reminder of the terrain that can lie close to the approach in this area.
The airport continues to handle scheduled airline services, with Azul operating to Campinas and seasonally to Porto Seguro, Gol to Sao Paulo-Congonhas, and LATAM to both Sao Paulo-Congonhas and Sao Paulo-Guarulhos. It operates as a public commercial aerodrome under airport operator management, with AFIS-provided air traffic service and an ILS-equipped runway direction supporting operations in poor weather.