Ministro Victor Konder International Airport — Navegantes, Brazil

Named for a onetime Brazilian government minister from Santa Catarina state, Ministro Victor Konder International Airport carries the code NVT and sits near sea level in Navegantes, at the mouth of the Itajaí-Açu River in southern Brazil. The airport serves as the main air gateway for the Itajaí Valley, a region shaped heavily by 19th-century German immigration, visible today in Blumenau's half-timbered architecture and its large annual Oktoberfest, one of the biggest outside Germany itself. Just as important to the airport's traffic is Balneário Camboriú, a beach resort city nearby whose dense skyline of high-rise towers has earned it comparisons to a miniature Rio or even Dubai, drawing Brazilian domestic tourists in large numbers during the southern summer. Textile manufacturing, another pillar of the regional economy inherited from its immigrant founders, adds business travel to the seasonal beach crowds keeping NVT's single runway busy through much of the year.