Is Azul Linhas Aéreas reliable?
Ranked 9 of 105 US airlines on on-time record.
373,771 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
84.06%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.77%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
52 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
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Delays it caused itself
Rest was weather, ATC or security
Reading Azul Linhas Aéreas’ record
The extremes are far apart. On PMW to GYN it arrived on time 98.04% of the time; on MAD to VCP the figure was 34.83%. Same airline, same fleet, same procedures — which is the clearest argument on this site for checking the route rather than the carrier.
Azul Linhas Aéreas sits in the top fifth of the 105 airlines measured.
Azul Linhas Aéreas appears in the record departing from 12 countrys. Because each regulator publishes on its own terms, a figure spanning several of them is an average over several definitions — close enough to compare, but the country pages are the more exact reading.
Each axis is a percentile against the other US airlines in the same period, not an absolute score. Further out is better than most; nearer the centre is worse than most.
Azul Linhas Aéreas in five measures
An airline's headline on-time rate hides more than it shows. Two carriers can both arrive on time 75% of the time while one is late by twelve minutes and the other by an hour, or while one is evenly mediocre everywhere and the other is excellent on most routes and dreadful on a few.
These five axes pull those apart. Each is scored against the other US airlines in the same period rather than on an absolute scale, because on-time rates cluster tightly enough that raw numbers would draw every carrier as the same shape.
Same everywhere is the one worth reading twice: it measures how far Azul Linhas Aéreas’ on-time rate moves from route to route. A carrier scoring low there has an average propped up by routes you may not be flying.
Azul Linhas Aéreas month by month
Its most reliable routes
- PMW → GYN Palmas to Goiânia 98.04%
- CGR → CWB Campo Grande to Curitiba 96.84%
- BSB → CGB Brasília to Cuiabá 96.12%
- VIX → REC Vitória to Recife 95.72%
- CMG → VCP Corumbá to Campinas 95.24%
- PET → POA Pelotas to Porto Alegre 94.95%
- PMW → CNF Palmas to Belo Horizonte 94.67%
- SMT → CNF Sorriso to Belo Horizonte 94.41%
- FLN → CNF Florianópolis to Belo Horizonte 94.28%
- CGB → BSB Cuiabá to Brasília 94.17%
Its worst routes
- MAD → VCP Madrid to Campinas 34.83%
- OPO → VCP Porto to Campinas 42.06%
- LIS → VCP Lisbon to Campinas 45.22%
- MAD → REC Madrid to Recife 52.25%
- VCP → OPO Campinas to Porto 53.91%
- MCO → CNF Orlando to Belo Horizonte 55.85%
- VCP → MAD Campinas to Madrid 57.69%
- OPO → REC Porto to Recife 65.63%
- VCP → LIS Campinas to Lisbon 66.71%
- REC → VIX Recife to Vitória 69.18%
How Azul Linhas Aéreas compares
Common questions
Is Azul Linhas Aéreas reliable?
Azul Linhas Aéreas arrived on time 84.06% of the time across 373,771 flights, ranking 9 of 105 airlines measured. That is a good record by the standards of this data.
How often does Azul Linhas Aéreas cancel flights?
1.77% of its scheduled flights were cancelled. Cancellation matters more than delay for a traveller: it is the outcome that costs a day, and the one that triggers a refund entitlement.
When Azul Linhas Aéreas is late, how late is it?
About 52 minutes on average across its delayed arrivals.
Figures cover July 2024 – July 2026 and are counted from the regulators' own published files. A grade describes the past and is not a prediction about a particular flight, nor a safety rating. How the grade is calculated →