International Airport

Brasília International Airport - President Juscelino Kubitschek serves the metropolitan area with major domestic and international flights. It is the third busiest Brazilian airport based on passengers and aircraft movements. Because of its strategic location it is a civil aviation hub for the rest of the country. This makes for a large number of takeoffs and landings and it is not unusual for flights to be delayed in the holding pattern before landing. Following the airport's master plan, Infraero built a second runway, which was finished in 2006. In 2007, the airport handled 11,119,872 passengers. The main building's third floor, with 12 thousand square meters, has a panoramic deck, a food court, shops, four movie theaters with total capacity of 500 people, and space for exhibitions. There are 136 shop spaces at Brasília Airport.
The airport is located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the central area of Brasília, outside the metro system. There are many taxis outside the main gate, and some bus lines which connect the airport to the central area of Brasília. The parking lot accomodates 1,200 cars. In addition to domestic and regional services (TAM, GOL, Azul, WebJET, Trip and Avianca). Brasilia is improving its international connections; non-stop flights to Miami, United States with AA start in Nov 2010 and with TAM in Dec 2010. There are already direct flights to Atlanta, United States with Delta; Lima, Peru with LAN and TACA ; and to Lisbon, Portugal with TAP. There are also rumors of a direct service to Buenos Aires, Argentina by 2011.

Metro

Metrô de Brasília is Brasília's underground metro system. The subway system has 24 stations on two lines, the Orange and Green lines, distributed along a total network of 42 km (26 mi), covering most of the metropolitan area. Both lines begin at the Central Station and run parallel until the Águas Claras Station. The Brasília metro is not comprehensive, so buses may provide better access to the city center. The metro leaves the Rodoviária (bus station) and goes south, avoiding most of the political and tourist areas. The main purpose of the metro is to serve the largest satellite cities, such as Samambaia, Taguatinga and Ceilândia, as well as Guará and Águas Claras. The satellite cities are more populated than the Plano Piloto itself (the census of 2000 indicated that Ceilândia had 344,039 inhabitants, Taguatinga had 243,575, whereas the Plano Piloto had approximately 400,000 inhabitants), and most residents of the satellite cities depend on public transportation.

Buses

The main bus hub in Brasília is the Central Bus Station, located in the crossing of the Eixo Monumental and the Eixão, about 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Three Powers Plaza. The original plan was to have a bus station as near as possible to every corner of Brasília. Today, the bus station is the hub of urban buses only, some running within Brasília and others connecting Brasília to the satellite cities. In the original city plan, the interstate buses should also stop at the Central Station. Because of the growth of Brasília (and corresponding growth in the bus fleet), today the interstate buses leave from the older interstate station (called Rodoferroviária), located at the western end of the Eixo Monumental. The Central Bus Station also contains a main metro station.
A new inter-state station was opened in July 2010. It is on Saída Sul (South Exit) near Parkshopping and a metro station.

Distances to Other Brazilian Major Cities

Goiânia: 209 km (130 mi);
Belo Horizonte: 740 km (460 mi);
Cuiabá: 1,009 km (627 mi);
São Paulo: 1,020 km (630 mi);
Campo Grande: 1,134 km (705 mi);
Rio de Janeiro: 1,160 km (720 mi);
Vitória: 1,237 km (769 mi);
Curitiba: 1,400 km (870 mi);
Salvador: 1,540 km (960 mi);
Palmas: 1,614 km (1,003 mi);
Aracaju: 1,650 km (1,030 mi);
Teresina: 1,662 km (1,033 mi);
Florianópolis: 1,700 km (1,100 mi);
Maceió: 1,899 km (1,180 mi);
São Luís: 1,953 km (1,214 mi);
Porto Alegre: 2,027 km (1,260 mi);
Belém: 2,130 km (1,320 mi);
Recife: 2,133 km (1,325 mi);
João Pessoa: 2,249 km (1,397 mi);
Fortaleza: 2,285 km (1,420 mi);
Macapá: 2,396 km (1,489 mi);
Natal: 2,507 km (1,558 mi);
Porto Velho: 2,589 km (1,609 mi);
Rio Branco: 2,923 km (1,816 mi);
Manaus: 3,490 km (2,170 mi);
Boa Vista: 4,085 km (2,538 mi).