SSA Salvador

How deep the SSA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SSA. This reads the same 31 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.

• 20of the 31 destinations are flown by one airline
• 14destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 67.7%of the destinations name Gol, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SSA

Nine airlines appear on the SSA board and they do not hold it evenly. Gol is on 21 of the 31 destinations, 67.7 per cent of them, and on 10 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 69.4 of the 74.9 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 Azul on 10 destinations. 5 of the 9 airlines at SSA 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 21 of the 31 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SSA sector is usually another Gol 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 SSA, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the SSA board is daily

Of the 31 destinations, 17 are flown at least once a day and 14 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SSA 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: SSA to Porto Alegre (POA) 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 39.6 of the 74.9 departures a day, 52.9 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves SSA 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
Curitiba CWB	Brazil	Gol	1	1,806	plan this
Lençóis LEC	Brazil	Azul	1	324	plan this
Porto Alegre POA	Brazil	Gol	1	2,315	plan this
Montevideo MVD	Uruguay	Sky Airline	2	3,020	plan this
Buenos Aires EZE	Argentina	Sky Airline	3	3,174	the pair page
Campina Grande CPV	Brazil	Gol	3	681	plan this
Ilhéus IOS	Brazil	Azul	3	226	plan this
Paris CDG	France	Air France	3	7,967	plan this
Petrolina PNZ	Brazil	Gol	3	464	plan this
Madrid MAD	Spain	Air Europa	4	6,934	plan this

The ten destinations out of SSA 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. 3 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SSA

The desk holds the return direction for 15 of the 31 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 15 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through SSA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: São Paulo (GRU) files 16.1 a day back into SSA against 7.5 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SSA

SSA keeps America/Bahia time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

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

The night at SSA

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 SSA that lands inside it leaves around 08:54, on a modelled block of 10h 06m. Those one departure times out of SSA 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 SSA 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 SSA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Salvador to São Paulo (GRU) and Salvador to Buenos Aires (EZE).

Six courier postings name SSA as the airport a courier here flies from: Salvador, Aracaju and Feira de Santana.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SSA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 31 destinations above.