At the cruise speed this site models for 10,607 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 17m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLV Tel Aviv to GRU Sao Paulo
Ben Gurion International, Israel, to Guarulhos International, Brazil. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 10,607 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 17m
- Door to door
- 20h 02m
What TLV to GRU looks like
The TLV to GRU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tel Aviv TLV to Sao Paulo GRU is an ultra long sector of 10,607 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
Tel Aviv TLV is a large airport in the network held here, 110 scheduled destinations and 275.3 departures a day. Sao Paulo GRU has 111 destinations and 511.3 departures a day.
Sao Paulo runs 5 hours behind of Tel Aviv in January and 6 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 28 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on TLV to GRU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLV to GRU | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| GRU to TLV | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for TLV to GRU rather than the fallback.
The return leg GRU to TLV carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
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 1 departure a week on TLV 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 13h 17m block time on TLV 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 TLV | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TLV before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TLV to GRU in the air, estimated | 797 min | 17h 47m |
| Formalities at GRU | 90 min | 19h 17m |
| Delivery run in Sao Paulo | 45 min | 20h 02m |
| Door to door | 1,202 min | 20h 02m |
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 TLV to GRU is 20h 02m.
A courier who leaves Tel Aviv at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sao Paulo at about 17:17 local and at the door by 19:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sao Paulo, the last useful departure from Tel Aviv is around 07:28 local.
At 20h 02m 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. 20 of them join TLV to GRU.
| Connecting at | TLV to hub, flights a day | Hub to GRU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon LIS | 1.14 | 4.57 | 11,956 | 16h 39m |
| Barcelona BCN | 3.71 | 1.14 | 11,847 | 16h 46m |
| Rome FCO | 9 | 4.14 | 11,712 | 16h 47m |
| Madrid MAD | 3 | 6.43 | 11,923 | 16h 52m |
| Milan MXP | 5.43 | 2.14 | 12,192 | 17h 23m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 3.14 | 1.14 | 12,520 | 17h 31m |
20 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 about once a day.
Through LIS the routing covers 11,956 km against the 10,607 km nonstop track and takes about 16h 39m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 22m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Barcelona BCN at 16h 46m and Rome FCO at 16h 47m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tel Aviv, Amman AMM is 109 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 TLV 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 Tel Aviv 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 TLV 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 TLV airport entry
- The GRU airport entry
- Hand carry into Israel
- Hand carry into Brazil
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Doha to Sao Paulo
- The written lane, Dubai to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
More pairs through TLV and GRU: Frankfurt to Sao Paulo, London to Sao Paulo, Amsterdam to Sao Paulo, Milan to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo to Santiago, Barcelona to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo to Rome, Zurich to Sao Paulo.