Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport Webcam

The International Airport of Recife/Guararapes – Gilberto Freyre – might not be the busiest airport in Brazil, but it still has its fair share of passenger and cargo traffic. Depending on what time you view this live feed, although it may look as though there’s not a great deal going on, that’s not the case.

This airport’s single runway is the take off and landing point for over seventy-thousand planes a year and the one terminal it boasts is the transition point for almost eight million passengers annually. It’s more than enough to keep the air traffic controllers on their toes as you’ll discover if you leave the cam sound switched on. While they may fall silent between arrivals and departures, they burst into action like chattering macaws on a caffeine high when there’s a job to do. If you don’t want to jump out of your chair in shock every time a plane is due on the tarmac, the best thing to do is turn the sound off.