FOR to GRU flight delays
Fortaleza (FOR) São Paulo (GRU)
334 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil
80.49%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.8%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
38 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
9 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. LATAM Brasil arrived on time 16.2 points more often than Gol Linhas Aéreas over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
The two directions do not behave alike. GRU to FOR arrives on time 8.5 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
This route does worse than its own airport. FOR as a whole runs 8.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
This is a thin route — 334 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, LATAM Brasil arrived on time most often on FOR to GRU. Gol Linhas Aéreas was late most often.
Every airline on FOR to GRU
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LATAM Brasil | 216 | 86.26% | 2.31% | 42 min | B |
| Gol Linhas Aéreas | 118 | 70.09% | 0.85% | 35 min | D |
The return leg
GRU to FOR São Paulo back to Fortaleza 72% on time DCommon questions
Are flights from Fortaleza to São Paulo usually delayed?
80.49% of flights on the FOR to GRU route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Fortaleza to São Paulo?
LATAM Brasil, at 86.26% on time across 216 flights. The least punctual on the route was Gol Linhas Aéreas at 70.09%.
How often are FOR to GRU flights cancelled?
1.8% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 18 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When FOR to GRU flights are late, how late are they?
About 38 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on FOR to GRU during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →