The sector is held by Aerolineas Argentinas, Gol, LATAM and LATAM Brasil.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AEP Buenos Aires to GRU Sao Paulo
Jorge Newbery Airfield, Argentina, to Guarulhos International, Brazil. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,694 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 40m
- Door to door
- 9h 25m
What AEP to GRU looks like
The AEP to GRU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Buenos Aires AEP to Sao Paulo GRU is a medium haul sector of 1,694 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,694 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 40m.
Buenos Aires AEP is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 57 scheduled destinations and 210.1 departures a day. Sao Paulo GRU has 111 destinations and 511.3 departures a day.
Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AEP to GRU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AEP to GRU | 13.86 | 97 | Aerolineas Argentinas, Gol, LATAM, LATAM Brasil |
| GRU to AEP | 10.57 | 74 | Aerolineas Argentinas, Gol, LATAM Brasil |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 13.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 171 departures a week on AEP to GRU, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 40m block time on AEP to GRU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AEP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AEP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AEP to GRU in the air, estimated | 160 min | 7h 10m |
| Formalities at GRU | 90 min | 8h 40m |
| Delivery run in Sao Paulo | 45 min | 9h 25m |
| Door to door | 565 min | 9h 25m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AEP to GRU is 9h 25m.
A courier who leaves Buenos Aires at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sao Paulo at about 11:40 local and at the door by 13:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sao Paulo, the last useful departure from Buenos Aires is around 13:05 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 15 of them join AEP to GRU.
| Connecting at | AEP to hub, flights a day | Hub to GRU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porto Alegre POA | 1.14 | 19 | 1,714 | 4h 11m |
| Buenos Aires EZE | 1 | 4.29 | 1,753 | 4h 15m |
| Curitiba CWB | 0.71 | 11.14 | 1,699 | 4h 15m |
| Montevideo MVD | 3.29 | 5.71 | 1,790 | 4h 20m |
| Asuncion ASU | 3.29 | 3.14 | 2,177 | 4h 47m |
| Rio de Janeiro GIG | 9.29 | 13.44 | 2,307 | 5h 01m |
With 13.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Porto Alegre POA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through POA the routing covers 1,714 km against the 1,694 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 11m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Buenos Aires EZE at 4h 15m and Curitiba CWB at 4h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires EZE is 31 km away by great circle and carries 58 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo CGH is 28 km away by great circle and carries 42 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through AEP or GRU. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Embraer, Sao Jose dos CamposCommercial and executive jet assembly. A Brazilian line supplied largely from Europe and North America. Logistics through Sao Paulo GRU.
Plan Buenos Aires to Sao Paulo yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AEP to GRU in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AEP airport entry
- The GRU airport entry
- Hand carry into Argentina
- Hand carry into Brazil
- The written lane, Doha to Sao Paulo
- The written lane, Dubai to Sao Paulo
- The written lane, Houston to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
More pairs through AEP and GRU: Buenos Aires to Santiago, Buenos Aires to Bogota, Buenos Aires to Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires to Lima, Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro, Frankfurt to Sao Paulo, London to Sao Paulo, Amsterdam to Sao Paulo.