GRU Sao Paulo

How deep the GRU board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GRU. This reads the same 111 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.

• 26of the 111 destinations are flown by one airline
• 23destinations run less than once a day
• 45destinations have four or more departures a day
• 73%of the destinations name LATAM, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GRU

42 airlines appear on the GRU board and they do not hold it evenly. LATAM is on 81 of the 111 destinations, 73 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 455.6 of the 511.3 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 78 destinations. 24 of the 42 airlines at GRU 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 81 of the 111 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GRU sector is usually another LATAM 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 GRU than the destination count does.

How much of the GRU board is daily

Of the 111 destinations, 88 are flown at least once a day and 23 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GRU board is flown about twice 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: GRU to Quito (UIO) 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 94.4 of the 511.3 departures a day, 18.5 per cent of the whole board. The other 106 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at GRU usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Caracas CCS	Venezuela	Gol	1	4,394	plan this
Quito UIO	Ecuador	Emirates	1	4,308	the pair page
Bonito BYO	Brazil	LATAM	2	1,055	plan this
Campinas VCP	Brazil	CMA	2	83	plan this
Cochabamba CBB	Bolivia	BoA	2	2,157	plan this
Oranjestad AUA	Aruba	Gol	2	4,746	plan this
Punta del Este PDP	Uruguay	Azul	2	1,519	plan this
Ushuahia USH	Argentina	LATAM	2	3,931	plan this
Luanda NBJ	Angola	TAAG	3	6,554	plan this
Munich MUC	Germany	Lufthansa	3	9,857	the pair page

The ten destinations out of GRU 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 GRU

The desk holds the return direction for 57 of the 111 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On nine of them the return into GRU runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Salvador (SSA) at 16.1 out a day against 7.5 back, Córdoba (COR) at 2 out a day against 1.1 back and Curitiba (CWB) at 18.9 out a day against 11.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 3.7 a day back into GRU against 2.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GRU

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

The night at GRU

7 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 GRU that lands inside it leaves around 07:10, on a modelled block of 11h 50m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from GRU that lands inside it leaves around 05:42, on a modelled block of 12h 18m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from GRU that lands inside it leaves around 07:36, on a modelled block of 11h 54m. Those three departure times out of GRU 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 GRU turns up on the rest of this site

GRU 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 GRU transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 43 airport pair pages that start or end at GRU, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Sao Paulo to Salvador (SSA), Sao Paulo to Santiago (SCL) and Sao Paulo to Fortaleza (FOR).

Seven of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Doha to Sao Paulo, Dubai to Sao Paulo and Houston to Sao Paulo. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at GRU written out.

24 courier postings name GRU as the airport a courier here flies from: Sao Paulo, Campinas and Sorocaba.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GRU already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 111 destinations above.