The air service is good. Air France and LATAM both fly Paris Charles de Gaulle to São Paulo Guarulhos nonstop, together around nineteen departures a week, with a southbound block time of about eleven hours forty. Paris also collects from a very large European catchment by road and by short feeder, so an item released in the morning almost anywhere in western Europe can be on that evening's departure.
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Paris · São Paulo · 24/7Onboard courier from Paris to São Paulo
Brazil is the lane where the most expensive mistake is made at the arrivals counter rather than in the air. A commercial part declared as a traveller's baggage is a part that gets taxed at a punitive rate, or detained, or both. Getting the entry right is the whole job, and it is decided before the courier leaves Paris.
Gateway pairCDG to GRU, nonstop, flown by Air France and LATAM
FrequencyAround nineteen departures a week between the two carriers
Block timeAbout eleven hours and forty minutes southbound
Traveller allowance1,000 US dollars by air, with the excess taxed at 50 per cent
The largest industrial base in South America, and its customs
Greater São Paulo is the biggest concentration of manufacturing on the continent, and the demand for hand carried parts around it is varied rather than dominated by one industry. The ABC belt south of the city builds vehicles and components. Campinas and the corridor north west of Guarulhos hold electronics, agricultural machinery and chemicals. São José dos Campos, about an hour from the airport by road, is where Embraer is, which makes this a genuine aircraft on ground destination as well as a line down one.
The difficulty is Brazilian customs, and it is a real difficulty rather than a reputation. An arriving air passenger has a 1,000 US dollar exemption for accompanied baggage, and the amount above that limit under the baggage regime is taxed at 50 per cent. The baggage regime is for a traveller's own goods. A production part, a spare or a sample belongs in a formal import, filed by an importer registered to import, with the tax treatment that goes with it. Choosing the wrong route because it looks simpler at the counter is how a small part becomes an expensive one.
from Paris to São Paulo: when does it have to land?Pick the deadline and the funnel opens with it. A dispatcher answers within 15 minutes.
Firm quote in 15 minutes
from Paris to São Paulo: tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.
Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.
- One named courier from collection to signature
- Customs cleared in person on arrival
- Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices
What this lane actually delivers to
The plants, parks and cities behind the enquiries on Paris to São Paulo.
- São Paulo city and the northern districts closest to Guarulhos.
- The ABC belt, Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano, on the far side of the city.
- São José dos Campos, about seventy kilometres out, for aerospace and defence.
- Campinas and Jundiaí, north west up the motorway, for electronics and machinery.
- Sorocaba and Indaiatuba, west of the metropolitan area.
- Santos and Cubatão, on the coast, for port and petrochemical work.
- Taubaté and the Paraíba valley, along the road to Rio de Janeiro.
220countries and territories on the desk
500+airports a courier can be booked into
15 minfrom your message to a firm price
24/7the operations centre is awake
The departure boards behind CDG to GRU
A hand-carry on this lane is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once, books the one that lands first and holds the one that leaves next.
CarrierLeaves fromWhat it means on this laneDepartures
EmiratesDXB, Terminal 3The night bank: widebodies between 01:00 and 04:00 that land before the working day. Non-stop where the network allows, one connection where it does not.Nightly bank
flydubaiDXB, Terminal 2The short and medium sectors, several times a day. The second departure is the safety net when a collection runs late.Several daily
EtihadAUH, Zayed InternationalNinety minutes by road from Dubai, its own wave of departures, US immigration cleared before boarding.Own bank
The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at from Paris to São Paulo first, at a fare the quote can carry.
from Paris to São Paulo: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.
Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.
Deciding the entry route before departure
There are two honest routes and they are not interchangeable. A genuinely small, low value item may be declared by the traveller, with the electronic traveller declaration submitted before arrival and any tax paid on the excess. A commercial consignment is imported formally by the consignee, who must be registered to import and who files through their own broker.
The route is chosen by the value, the nature of the goods and who the goods actually belong to, and it is chosen at booking. We ask who the importer of record will be and whether they are registered, because a consignee who is not registered to import cannot receive a formal entry no matter how fast the courier is.
Documents that travel with the courier
A commercial invoice with a real description, a real value and the correct commodity code, a packing list, the consignee's details and the broker's contact are the minimum. New goods are expected to be supported by documentation of acquisition, and vague descriptions attract examination.
Where the item is going to Brazil temporarily, for a trial, a repair, an exhibition or a test campaign, ask the broker about a temporary admission route before choosing an outright import. Paying import tax on something that is flying home in three weeks is avoidable and the decision has to be made before the goods arrive.
The French side and the export declaration
Paris draws a very large catchment: the Île de France, the Loire and Normandy by road, and most of western Europe by short feeder or a few hours of motorway. Collection is arranged from the address given and the binding constraint is the long haul check in cut off rather than the drive.
An oral export declaration at the office of exit covers commercial goods only up to 1,000 euros in value or 1,000 kilogrammes in net mass. Aerospace and industrial parts are normally above that, so a written declaration has to be lodged and the movement reference number must exist before check in. Aerospace work also raises export control questions, which we ask about at enquiry rather than at the desk.
Arrival at Guarulhos and the drive out
Guarulhos is north east of São Paulo and the traffic in the metropolitan area is the dominant term in every road leg out of it. The ABC belt is on the far side of the city. Campinas is north west up the motorway. São José dos Campos is about seventy kilometres and roughly an hour when the road is clear, and considerably more when it is not.
We quote the road leg as its own window and we state the assumption we made about the hour. Where the receiving plant runs a night shift and the gate is manned we deliver on arrival, and where it does not we quote the first opening instead of implying a handover that cannot happen.
Aircraft on ground work into São José dos Campos
An aircraft on ground consignment behaves differently from a factory delivery. The recipient is often a maintenance organisation rather than a plant, the paperwork includes an authorised release certificate that must travel with the part, and the delivery point may be a hangar with its own access control.
The two things that decide the outcome are the release paperwork and the receiving contact. A part that arrives without its certificate cannot be fitted, and a hangar that does not know a courier is coming will not open. Both are settled at booking.
Services that carry this lane
What flies, and what it means for a courier who has to be at the gate.
- Air France flies Paris Charles de Gaulle to São Paulo Guarulhos nonstop and carries the majority of the departures on this lane.
- LATAM operates the same sector nonstop, which gives a second daily option and a recovery route when Air France is full.
- Iberia and Air Europa reach São Paulo through Madrid, a short feeder or a long drive from Paris.
- TAP Air Portugal connects through Lisbon and often holds availability when the Paris nonstops do not.
- KLM and Lufthansa reach São Paulo through Amsterdam and Frankfurt when the courier is repositioning from northern Europe.
Questions about Paris to São Paulo
01Can the courier simply declare the part as baggage?
Only if it genuinely is a traveller's own goods and the value fits. The air traveller exemption is 1,000 US dollars and the excess under the baggage regime is taxed at 50 per cent. A commercial part belongs in a formal import filed by a registered importer, and treating it as baggage to save time usually costs more than it saves.
02Who can be the importer of record in Brazil?
The consignee, provided they hold the registration needed to import and have a broker engaged. This is the single most common blocker on the lane. We ask about it at enquiry, because a courier landing at Guarulhos for a consignee who cannot import has nowhere to go.
03What are the options if both nonstops are full?
Air France and LATAM together give around nineteen departures a week, so the first answer is usually the other carrier or the next day. Beyond that the practical alternatives are one stop routings through Madrid, Lisbon or Amsterdam, and we say which one we have taken rather than leaving you to read a tracking page.
04How long does clearance take at Guarulhos?
It varies and we will not put a fixed number on it. A properly documented formal entry with a broker present is a different experience from an incomplete one, and examination is always possible. We quote landing, clearance and drive as three separate windows so you can see where the risk sits.
05Can you deliver to Embraer at São José dos Campos?
We deliver to the address and the named recipient the consignee nominates, which for aircraft on ground work is usually a hangar or a stores counter with its own access control. The part's release certificate has to travel with it, and the site has to know the courier is coming.
06Can the courier bring a rotable back to Europe?
Yes, and on aircraft on ground work the return of the removed unit is often part of the same mission. It needs its own export treatment on the Brazilian side, so it has to be planned before the outbound leg rather than raised on arrival.
What the desk works out before it quotes Paris to Sao Paulo
Computed for CDG to GRU on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics and from the airport files retrieved 2026-09-07. The distance is great circle between CDG and GRU, the flying time is the model the calculator on this page runs, and the hours are local at each end. Frequencies move with the season, so a Paris to Sao Paulo quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask rather than on this page.
18h 35mdoor to door on the desk standard allowances
23:35handed over in Sao Paulo from a nine in the morning collection in Paris
4.7scheduled flights a day on the CDG to GRU sector
91airports in Brazil the desk can put a courier into
How a Paris to Sao Paulo movement actually runs
A Paris to Sao Paulo movement runs on one aircraft. The schedule the desk holds carries Paris CDG to São Paulo GRU nonstop 4.7 times a day over 9,405 km of great circle track, which at the cruise speed this site models blocks at about 11h 50m. Three airlines hold CDG to GRU in the schedule, Air France, LATAM and LATAM Brasil, which gives a courier who loses a seat somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop. About 5.1 hours between departures is inside a working day and outside a lunch hour, so the outbound from CDG to GRU is held before the collection is confirmed. The two directions are not equal either, CDG to GRU carrying 4.7 scheduled movements a day against 3.7 the other way, which matters on a return leg or a courier who has to come home.
The clock on a Paris to Sao Paulo movement
| Stage | Paris local | Sao Paulo local |
|---|---|---|
| Collection closes | 09:00 | 05:00 |
| At the airport | 10:30 | 06:30 |
| Wheels up | 13:30 | 09:30 |
| On the ground | 01:20 | 21:20 |
| Through arrivals | 02:50 | 22:50 |
| Handed over | 03:35 | 23:35 |
The same ground allowances the calculator on this page starts from, ninety minutes to collect and reach CDG, three hours at the airport before departure, 11h 50m in the air nonstop, ninety minutes of arrival formalities at GRU and a forty five minute delivery run. Both columns are local, read for a mid January date, because Paris and Sao Paulo do not change their clocks on the same day. Move any of the allowances in the calculator lower down this page and the whole Paris to Sao Paulo clock moves with them.
Sao Paulo runs 4 hours behind Paris in January, which is why the two columns above do not sit 11h 50m apart. In July the gap is 5 hours instead, because Paris and Sao Paulo do not change their clocks together, and a summer booking on this lane is read off the summer figure. Read backwards, a six in the evening handover in Sao Paulo would need the collection in Paris closed at about 03:25 local, which is before a working morning starts. On CDG to GRU the honest answer is an evening handover on the day after collection, or a first thing delivery in Sao Paulo the following morning. Forwards, a nine in the morning collection in Paris reaches the door in Sao Paulo at about 23:35 local, after the end of a normal working day, so the handover is either arranged with somebody on site or it waits for the morning.
What gets a courier onto the Paris to Sao Paulo lane
The industrial geography the site publishes puts two aerospace sites, one automotive site and one pharmaceutical and life science site within reach of CDG or GRU: Safran at Villaroche and Corbeil, Renault at Flins and Douai, Sanofi at Frankfurt Hoechst and Paris and Embraer at Sao Jose dos Campos. The file names them as public industrial fact and not as anybody's customer, it is checked 2026-09-07, and it is the reason CDG to GRU is a lane at all. That mix is what a hand carry between Paris and Sao Paulo usually carries: aerospace work moves in small, heavy, expensive pieces that a line is already waiting for, and it is the waiting line rather than the weight of the item that pays for a seat. What the measured network does say about the item is that 9,405 km is a long haul sector, so the consignment stays with one person for 11h 50m of flying and is presented at GRU by that person. Anything inside cabin limits leaves CDG in the cabin and stays there for the whole of it; above that it travels as accompanied checked baggage on the same ticket and is lifted off the belt at GRU by the same courier.
Where a Paris to Sao Paulo consignment is entered, and at what hour
A consignment that leaves Paris on this lane is entered at São Paulo GRU. The held schedule reaches Brazil at 91 airports in all, São Paulo CGH, Rio de Janeiro GIG, Brasília BSB and Belo Horizonte CNF among them, so where the consignee is not in Sao Paulo the desk compares the arrival airport before it buys the CDG ticket rather than driving the difference afterwards. The hour matters as much as the paperwork, and on the clock above the courier is through arrivals at Sao Paulo GRU at 22:50 local, while an entry into Brazil that lands outside working hours waits for the people who process it, so the desk sets the broker and the receiving contact against that hour before the courier leaves Paris for GRU. What the entry itself needs, the declaration, the broker and the documents, is set out for Brazil on the country desk and is not repeated on every lane that lands at GRU, and the desk checks that position against the actual consignment before it quotes CDG to GRU.
The other ways into Brazil on CDG to GRU
A consignee on this lane is not always in Sao Paulo, so these are the other airports in Brazil that CDG reaches without a change of aircraft on the held schedule, with the great circle distance from GRU beside each one. The closest of them is Rio de Janeiro GIG at 337 km from GRU, running about once a day out of CDG, which on a delivery outside the city is often the shorter total journey even though it looks like the wrong airport.
| Airport | City | Flights a day from CDG | km from GRU | In the calculator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio de Janeiro GIG | Rio de Janeiro | 1.6 | 337 | open it |
| Fortaleza FOR | Fortaleza | 0.7 | 2,347 | open it |
Straight line distance from GRU, not a road distance, and the desk works the road leg out properly against the actual delivery address before it quotes CDG into an airport that is not GRU.
What Paris to Sao Paulo costs in courier time
This desk is in Dubai and neither end of CDG to GRU is, so where a courier has to be positioned onto CDG rather than found there, the held schedule puts DXB to CDG at 3.9 times a day over 5,239 km, and that positioning leg is priced into the quote rather than discovered after it. Three of the five UAE gateways reach CDG without a change, which is why the CDG to GRU collection that has to start tomorrow morning in Paris is still worth asking about tonight. The assignment is not finished at the signature, and GRU back to CDG runs 4.7 times a day on the same held schedule, so the courier has a way home on the same day the item is delivered, and the fare that matters to a quote is the round trip rather than the one way. At 18h 35m from collection to signature the job is past the sixteen hour duty period a single courier is planned against, so CDG to GRU is quoted with a rest built in or with the courier changed at the interchange, and never as one unbroken shift. By length this is the 70th longest of the 346 lanes the site publishes, at 9,405 km.
What decides whether Paris to Sao Paulo goes today
- The next departure: CDG to GRU runs 4.7 times a day on the held schedule, so the question is not whether the lane exists but whether today's aircraft still has a seat and a cabin allowance that fits the item.
- The calendar: the door to door figure is 18h 35m, which on this lane puts the handover in Sao Paulo on the day after the collection in Paris, so the decision to make today is which morning it has to reach GRU, not which hour.
- The night at Paris: scheduled movements are restricted between 00:00 and 05:00 local, and the departure worked out above, 13:30, sits outside that window, so the restriction does not bite on the CDG to GRU timing, though it is what turns a collection that runs three hours late into a movement tomorrow.
- The paperwork: the invoice value, the description and the classification have to agree with what is in the box before the courier leaves Paris for Sao Paulo, and that is checked at the collection address, because a mismatch found at GRU is settled at the speed of a broker rather than the speed of an aeroplane.
The rest of what this site holds on Paris and Sao Paulo
This section answers the Paris to Sao Paulo lane. CDG, GRU, the two countries and any hub in between each carry a page of their own, and none of them repeats what is above. Go on to the atlas entries for Paris CDG and São Paulo GRU, which hold the full destination list at each end, the country desks for France and Brazil, which hold the entry and customs practice, the airport pair references Paris CDG to Frankfurt-am-Main FRA and São Paulo GRU to Salvador SSA, for the sector arithmetic beside this lane and the route calculator with CDG to GRU already loaded.
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