Is Gol Linhas Aéreas reliable?

Ranked 4 of 86 US airlines on on-time record.

22,796 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

87.48%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.61%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

44 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

—

Delays it caused itself

Rest was weather, ATC or security

Reading Gol Linhas Aéreas’ record

Gol Linhas Aéreas sits in the top fifth of the 86 airlines measured.

The extremes are far apart. On GIG to POA it arrived on time 95.59% of the time; on FOR to GRU the figure was 70.09%. Same airline, same fleet, same procedures — which is the clearest argument on this site for checking the route rather than the carrier.

Gol 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.

Arrives on time 87.48%

Rarely cancels 1.61% cancelled

Short delays when late 44 min when late

Few self-inflicted delays % its own fault

Same wherever it flies ±6 pts across routes

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.

Gol 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 Gol 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.

Gol Linhas Aéreas month by month

Its most reliable routes

Its worst routes

How Gol Linhas Aéreas compares

Air Malta 88 1.3%

China Eastern Airlines 87 1.3%

Air China 85 1.3%

Gol Linhas Aéreas 87 1.3%

Air Europa 84 1.3%

SAS 86 1.3%

Azul Linhas Aéreas 87 1.3%

Gulf Air 84 1.3%

Japan Airlines 84 1.3%

Copa Airlines 84 1.3%

Kuwait Airways 83 1.3%

Norwegian 82 1.3%

Wizz Air 81 1.2%

Austrian Airlines 83 1.3%

Icelandair 83 1.3%

Hawaiian Airlines 81 1.2%

Wizz Air Malta 80 1.2%

Turkish Airlines 81 1.2%

Vueling 79 1.2%

Delta Air Lines 82 1.2%

Emirates 79 1.2%

Royal Jordanian 81 1.2%

Etihad Airways 80 1.2%

BA CityFlyer 80 1.2%

airBaltic 77 1.2%

United Airlines 79 1.2%

Emerald Airlines UK 80 1.2%

Virgin Australia 80 1.2%

TAP Air Portugal 79 1.2%

Alaska Airlines 79 1.2%

KLM Cityhopper 76 1.2%

Loganair 81 1.2%

LATAM Brasil 79 1.2%

Eurowings 79 1.2%

Qantas 81 1.2%

British Airways 80 1.2%

Envoy Air 80 1.2%

Wizz Air UK 77 1.2%

Virgin Atlantic 80 1.2%

SkyWest Airlines 79 1.2%

Lufthansa 79 1.2%

Southwest Airlines 77 1.2%

Thai Airways 76 1.2%

Qatar Airways 80 1.2%

easyJet 75 1.1%

Aer Lingus 78 1.2%

LOT Polish Airlines 75 1.1%

Allegiant Air 74 1.1%

Jetstar 76 1.2%

Air Canada 76 1.2%

QantasLink 79 1.2%

Ryanair 72 1.1%

Rex Airlines 77 1.2%

Air France 74 1.1%

Ryanair UK 72 1.1%

Aegean Airlines 73 1.1%

Republic Airways 78 1.2%

Air Transat 71 1.1%

American Airlines 74 1.1%

Frontier Airlines 73 1.1%

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines 73 1.1%

Corendon Airlines 70 1.1%

SKY Airline 74 1.1%

Jet2 69 1.0%

Singapore Airlines 71 1.1%

BA Euroflyer 68 1.0%

KLM 73 1.1%

JetBlue Airways 73 1.1%

SunExpress 70 1.1%

PSA Airlines 75 1.1%

easyJet Switzerland 73 1.1%

Spirit Airlines 73 1.1%

LATAM Airlines 66 1.0%

easyJet Europe 73 1.1%

El Al 69 1.1%

Brussels Airlines 71 1.1%

Swiss International Air Lines 67 1.0%

Iberia 79 1.2%

Aurigny 72 1.1%

TUI Airways 59 0.9%

Finnair 71 1.1%

Royal Air Maroc 56 0.8%

Air India 59 0.9%

Aerolíneas Argentinas 61 0.9%

Blue Islands 62 0.9%

Ethiopian Airlines 71 1.1%

Common questions

Is Gol Linhas Aéreas reliable?

Gol Linhas Aéreas arrived on time 87.48% of the time across 22,796 flights, ranking 4 of 86 airlines measured. That is a good record by the standards of this data.

How often does Gol Linhas Aéreas cancel flights?

1.61% 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 Gol Linhas Aéreas is late, how late is it?

About 44 minutes on average across its delayed arrivals.

Figures cover January 2025 – August 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 →