FOR Fortaleza

How deep the FOR board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from FOR. This reads the same 25 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 9of the 25 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 7destinations have four or more departures a day
• 64%of the destinations name LATAM, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at FOR

Seven airlines appear on the FOR board and they do not hold it evenly. LATAM is on 16 of the 25 destinations, 64 per cent of them, and on every one of them it shares the sector with someone else. The destinations it appears on carry 71.7 of the 77.7 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is LATAM Brasil on 16 destinations. 2 of the 7 airlines at FOR appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 16 of the 25 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an FOR sector is usually another LATAM aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for FOR, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the FOR board is daily

Of the 25 destinations, 13 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the FOR board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: FOR to Orlando (MCO) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 48 of the 77.7 departures a day, 61.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves FOR is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Cayenne / Rochambeau CAY	French Guiana	Air France	1	1,809	plan this
Foz do Iguaçu IGU	Brazil	Gol	1	2,965	plan this
Montevideo MVD	Uruguay	Gol	1	3,897	plan this
Orlando MCO	the United States	Gol	1	5,806	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Argentina	Gol	2	3,991	plan this
São Paulo CGH	Brazil	Azul	2	2,373	plan this
Madrid MAD	Spain	Iberia	5	6,073	plan this
Paris CDG	France	Air France	5	7,079	plan this

The eight destinations out of FOR where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The way back from FOR

The desk holds the return direction for 16 of the 25 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into FOR runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Miami (MIA) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Manaus (MAO) at 2.1 out a day against 1.4 back and Brasília (BSB) at 7.9 out a day against 5.4 back.

It runs the other way as well: São Paulo (CGH) files 5.9 a day back into FOR against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at FOR

FOR keeps America/Fortaleza time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 02:00 at FOR, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for two hours. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for FOR is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at FOR

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from FOR that lands inside it leaves around 09:58, on a modelled block of 9h 02m. Those one departure times out of FOR are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where FOR turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Brazil country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at FOR, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Fortaleza to São Paulo (GRU) and Fortaleza to Santiago (SCL).

Five courier postings name FOR as the airport a courier here flies from: Fortaleza, Mossoró and Maracanaú.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with FOR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 25 destinations above.