POA Porto Alegre

How deep the POA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from POA. This reads the same 19 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 11of the 19 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.9%of the destinations name Azul, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at POA

Seven airlines appear on the POA board and they do not hold it evenly. Azul is on 11 of the 19 destinations, 57.9 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 53.6 of the 64.9 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 on 8 destinations. 4 of the 7 airlines at POA 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 11 of the 19 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a POA sector is usually another Azul 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 POA, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the POA board is daily

Of the 19 destinations, 11 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the POA 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: POA to Salvador (SSA) 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 51.4 of the 64.9 departures a day, 79.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves POA 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
Salvador SSA	Brazil	Gol	1	2,315	plan this
Foz do Iguaçu IGU	Brazil	Gol	2	587	plan this
Pelotas PET	Brazil	Azul	2	221	plan this
San Carlos de Bariloche BRC	Argentina	Azul	2	2,184	plan this
Santa Maria RIA	Brazil	Azul	2	245	plan this
Santo Ângelo GEL	Brazil	Azul	4	348	plan this
Uruguaiana URG	Brazil	Azul	4	566	plan this
Lisbon LIS	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal	5	8,800	plan this

The eight destinations out of POA 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 POA

The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 19 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 10 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through POA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: São Paulo (GRU) files 25.3 a day back into POA against 19 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at POA

POA keeps America/Sao_Paulo time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 02:00 at POA, 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 POA is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

Where POA 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.

Nine courier postings name POA as the airport a courier here flies from: Porto Alegre, Caxias do Sul and Pelotas.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with POA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 19 destinations above.