GIG Rio de Janeiro

How deep the GIG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GIG. This reads the same 52 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.

• 34of the 52 destinations are flown by one airline
• 15destinations run less than once a day
• 15destinations have four or more departures a day
• 65.4%of the destinations name Gol, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GIG

21 airlines appear on the GIG board and they do not hold it evenly. Gol is on 34 of the 52 destinations, 65.4 per cent of them, and on 18 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 133.2 of the 167.7 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 on 13 destinations. 13 of the 21 airlines at GIG 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 34 of the 52 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GIG sector is usually another Gol aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at GIG than the destination count does.

How much of the GIG board is daily

Of the 52 destinations, 37 are flown at least once a day and 15 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GIG 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: GIG to São José dos Campos (SJK) 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 53.7 of the 167.7 departures a day, 32 per cent of the whole board. The other 47 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at GIG usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Ilhéus IOS	Brazil	Gol	1	993	plan this
São José dos Campos SJK	Brazil	Gol	1	271	plan this
Porto OPO	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal	2	7,965	plan this
Teresina THE	Brazil	Gol	2	1,974	plan this
Rosario ROS	Argentina	Gol	2.3	2,052	plan this
Campo Grande CGR	Brazil	Gol	3	1,208	plan this
Cuiabá CGB	Brazil	Gol	3	1,566	plan this
Mendoza MDZ	Argentina	JetSMART	3	2,738	plan this
Santa Cruz de la Sierra VVI	Bolivia	BoA	3	2,151	plan this
Uberlândia UDI	Brazil	Gol	3	676	plan this

The ten destinations out of GIG 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. 5 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from GIG

The desk holds the return direction for 32 of the 52 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into GIG runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Brasília (BSB) at 7.1 out a day against 4.6 back and Lisbon (LIS) at 2.4 out a day against 1.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Buenos Aires (AEP) files 9.3 a day back into GIG against 5.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GIG

GIG 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 GIG, 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 GIG is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at GIG

4 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 GIG that lands inside it leaves around 07:26, on a modelled block of 11h 34m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from GIG that lands inside it leaves around 05:59, on a modelled block of 12h 01m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from GIG that lands inside it leaves around 07:51, on a modelled block of 11h 39m. Those three departure times out of GIG 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 GIG turns up on the rest of this site

GIG carries two other pages on this site as well: the Brazil country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the GIG transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 7 airport pair pages that start or end at GIG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo (GRU), Rio de Janeiro to Santiago (SCL) and Rio de Janeiro to Brasília (BSB).

16 courier postings name GIG as the airport a courier here flies from: Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu and Juiz de Fora.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GIG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 52 destinations above.