Campos do Jordão

Typical arrival options are mountain airfield or altiport, resort helipad, approved mountain landing site, valley-floor pickup. Which one you actually use is confirmed per booking, because pad licences, noise windows and owner permissions change. Altitude-rated aircraft and a crew type-current on mountain operations. Performance is limited by density altitude, so payload is calculated on the day against actual temperature.

No. The airport or airfield arrival works for every booking and is the fallback whenever a private site is unavailable or weather closes it. A licensed private pad, an approved one-off landing site or a yacht helideck are added on top when the operator can obtain the permissions in time.

The valley airport or altiport is the primary arrival point. Mountain fields are performance-limited: density altitude, temperature and wind decide the payload on the day, and low cloud can close the high pad while the valley field stays open. Winter changeover Saturdays are the busiest slots of the week.

Both, for different reasons. On the business side: Executive access to conferences and private meetings held at altitude; Infrastructure, cable-car and pipeline inspection flights; Heavy-lift and construction support to sites with no road access. On the private and leisure side: Saturday changeover transfers from the valley airport straight to the resort; Heli-skiing and off-piste access where locally permitted; Mountain-lunch day trips and glacier scenic flights.

About 45 minutes in the air from São Paulo, a planning estimate from SkyMatch route data. Nearby, Ubatuba is roughly 25 minutes away, Paraty is roughly 30 minutes away, Ilhabela is roughly 30 minutes away at normal block speed. Actual times depend on aircraft type, routing, wind and any airspace restriction on the day.

48 hours in season, and more for Saturday resort changeovers or any authorised mountain landing site. Requests outside those windows are still worth sending — availability depends on where aircraft are already positioned.

The operator decides on the day against actual conditions and the aircraft’s approval level. In practice the flight either shifts to an alternative site with a road leg for the final stretch, moves to a later slot, or is cancelled. Build the fallback into your schedule rather than into the day itself.

Capacity is set by the aircraft, not the destination: light singles typically carry around 100–120 kg of baggage across all passengers, light twins roughly 180–200 kg, and soft bags load far better than hard cases. Declare passenger weights and bag count at request stage so the operator quotes an aircraft that can actually carry the load.

No. SkyMatch is an independent broker and concierge, not an aircraft operator. A licensed third-party operator flies the trip and confirms the aircraft, availability, price, route and landing site; the flight contract is with that operator.