The sector is held by LATAM Brasil and LATAM.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
REC Recife to SCL Santiago
Guararapes International, Brazil, to Arturo Merino Benitez, Chile. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 4,627 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 04m
- Door to door
- 12h 49m
What REC to SCL looks like
The REC to SCL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Recife REC to Santiago SCL is a long haul sector of 4,627 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,627 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 04m.
Recife REC is a smaller airport in the network held here, 37 scheduled destinations and 86 departures a day. Santiago SCL has 55 destinations and 216.5 departures a day.
Santiago carries about 2.5 times the departures of Recife, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Santiago runs no time shift at all of Recife in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 REC to SCL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| REC to SCL | 0.14 | 1 | LATAM Brasil |
| SCL to REC | 0.14 | 1 | LATAM |
Two carriers hold the sector, LATAM Brasil and LATAM, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At about once 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 2 departures a week on REC to SCL, 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 6h 04m block time on REC to SCL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to REC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At REC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| REC to SCL in the air, estimated | 364 min | 10h 34m |
| Formalities at SCL | 90 min | 12h 04m |
| Delivery run in Santiago | 45 min | 12h 49m |
| Door to door | 769 min | 12h 49m |
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 REC to SCL is 12h 49m.
A courier who leaves Recife at 09:00 local is on the ground in Santiago at about 15:04 local and at the door by 17:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Santiago, the last useful departure from Recife is around 09:41 local.
At 12h 49m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 10 of them join REC to SCL.
| Connecting at | REC to hub, flights a day | Hub to SCL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia BSB | 8.29 | 0.71 | 4,664 | 7h 45m |
| Buenos Aires AEP | 1 | 13.43 | 4,941 | 8h 02m |
| Rio de Janeiro GIG | 6.86 | 7.57 | 4,793 | 8h 07m |
| Porto Alegre POA | 1.14 | 1 | 4,854 | 8h 12m |
| Sao Paulo GRU | 10.14 | 15.57 | 4,715 | 8h 16m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.43 | 4.43 | 17,009 | 23h 00m |
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brasilia BSB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through BSB the routing covers 4,664 km against the 4,627 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 45m 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 41m 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 AEP at 8h 02m and Rio de Janeiro GIG at 8h 07m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Recife to Santiago 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 REC to SCL 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 REC airport entry
- The SCL airport entry
- Hand carry into Brazil
- Hand carry into Chile
- The written lane, Dubai to Santiago
- The route calculator
More pairs through REC and SCL: Sao Paulo to Recife, Buenos Aires to Recife, Sao Paulo to Santiago, Madrid to Santiago, Barcelona to Santiago, Santiago to Atlanta, Bogota to Santiago, Santiago to Miami.