The sector is held by Royal Air Maroc.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GRU Sao Paulo to CMN Casablanca
Guarulhos International, Brazil, to Mohammed V International, Morocco. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 7,540 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 35m
- Door to door
- 16h 20m
What GRU to CMN looks like
The GRU to CMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Sao Paulo GRU to Casablanca CMN is an ultra long sector of 7,540 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,540 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 35m.
Sao Paulo GRU is a large airport in the network held here, 111 scheduled destinations and 511.3 departures a day. Casablanca CMN has 104 destinations and 130.1 departures a day.
Sao Paulo carries about 3.9 times the departures of Casablanca, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Casablanca is 3 hours ahead of Sao Paulo all year.
The pair sits between Africa and the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 2 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on GRU to CMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRU to CMN | 0.71 | 5 | Royal Air Maroc |
| CMN to GRU | 0.43 | 3 | Royal Air Maroc |
One carrier holds the sector, Royal Air Maroc, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: GRU to CMN runs 5 times a week, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on GRU to CMN, 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 9h 35m block time on GRU to CMN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to GRU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At GRU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| GRU to CMN in the air, estimated | 575 min | 14h 05m |
| Formalities at CMN | 90 min | 15h 35m |
| Delivery run in Casablanca | 45 min | 16h 20m |
| Door to door | 980 min | 16h 20m |
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 GRU to CMN is 16h 20m.
A courier who leaves Sao Paulo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Casablanca at about 21:35 local and at the door by 23:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Casablanca, nothing leaving Sao Paulo inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 16h 20m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 23 of them join GRU to CMN.
| Connecting at | GRU to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon LIS | 4.29 | 3.14 | 8,553 | 12h 43m |
| Madrid MAD | 5.71 | 5.14 | 9,248 | 13h 43m |
| Barcelona BCN | 0.86 | 3.14 | 9,992 | 14h 37m |
| Paris CDG | 3.71 | 9 | 11,337 | 16h 18m |
| Rome FCO | 4 | 1.43 | 11,411 | 16h 23m |
| Milan MXP | 1.86 | 2.29 | 11,433 | 16h 25m |
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lisbon LIS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.1 times a day.
Through LIS the routing covers 8,553 km against the 7,540 km nonstop track and takes about 12h 43m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 08m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Madrid MAD at 13h 43m and Barcelona BCN at 14h 37m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Casablanca, Rabat RBA is 109 km away by great circle and carries 43 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 GRU or CMN. 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 Sao Paulo to Casablanca 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 GRU to CMN 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 GRU airport entry
- The CMN airport entry
- Hand carry into Brazil
- Hand carry into Morocco
- 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 GRU and CMN: Madrid to Casablanca, Brussels to Casablanca, Frankfurt to Casablanca, Milan to Casablanca, Jeddah to Casablanca, Casablanca to Doha, Paris to Casablanca, Manchester to Casablanca.