The sector is held by LATAM Brasil.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EZE Buenos Aires to REC Recife
Ministro Pistarini, Argentina, to Guararapes International, Brazil. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,822 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 06m
- Door to door
- 11h 51m
What EZE to REC looks like
The EZE to REC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Buenos Aires EZE to Recife REC is a long haul sector of 3,822 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,822 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 06m.
Buenos Aires EZE is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 58 scheduled destinations and 109.4 departures a day. Recife REC has 37 destinations and 86 departures a day.
Buenos Aires and Recife 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 EZE to REC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EZE to REC | 0.29 | 2 | LATAM Brasil |
| REC to EZE | 0.14 | 1 | LATAM Brasil |
One carrier holds the sector, LATAM Brasil, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: EZE to REC runs 2 times a week, the return runs about once a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on EZE to REC, 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 5h 06m block time on EZE to REC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EZE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EZE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EZE to REC in the air, estimated | 306 min | 9h 36m |
| Formalities at REC | 90 min | 11h 06m |
| Delivery run in Recife | 45 min | 11h 51m |
| Door to door | 711 min | 11h 51m |
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 EZE to REC is 11h 51m.
A courier who leaves Buenos Aires at 09:00 local is on the ground in Recife at about 14:06 local and at the door by 16:21 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Recife, the last useful departure from Buenos Aires is around 10:39 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. 7 of them join EZE to REC.
| Connecting at | EZE to hub, flights a day | Hub to REC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvador SSA | 0.71 | 5.14 | 3,823 | 6h 46m |
| Rio de Janeiro GIG | 5.57 | 6.43 | 3,855 | 6h 55m |
| Sao Paulo GRU | 4.29 | 11.46 | 3,823 | 7h 08m |
| Madrid MAD | 8.14 | 0.57 | 16,376 | 22h 14m |
7 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Salvador SSA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through SSA the routing covers 3,823 km against the 3,822 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 46m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Rio de Janeiro GIG at 6h 55m and Sao Paulo GRU at 7h 08m 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 AEP is 31 km away by great circle and carries 57 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Buenos Aires to Recife 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 EZE to REC 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 EZE airport entry
- The REC airport entry
- Hand carry into Argentina
- Hand carry into Brazil
- The written lane, Dubai to Buenos Aires
- The written lane, Madrid to Buenos Aires
- The route calculator
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