GIG to REC flight delays
Rio De Janeiro (GIG) Recife (REC)
214 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil
91.55%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.47%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
41 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
4 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from Rio De Janeiro to Recife are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from GIG overall run 7.2 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion GIG has, this route is largely escaping it.
Only Gol Linhas Aéreas flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
This is a thin route — 214 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, Gol Linhas Aéreas arrived on time most often on GIG to REC.
Every airline on GIG to REC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gol Linhas Aéreas | 164 | 93.29% | 0% | 34 min | A |
| Azul Linhas Aéreas | 49 | 87.5% | 2.04% | 58 min | — |
| Map Linhas Aéreas | 1 | 0% | 0% | 15 min | — |
The return leg
REC to GIG Recife back to Rio De Janeiro 91.04% on time AOther routes from Rio De Janeiro
- GIG → GRU · São Paulo C
- GIG → POA · Porto Alegre A
- GIG → SCL · Santiago F
- GIG → SSA · Salvador A
- GIG → CWB · Curitiba A
- GIG → VIX · Vitória A
- GIG → CNF · Belo Horizonte A
- GIG → BSB · Brasília A
- GIG → FOR · Fortaleza A
- GIG → VCP · Campinas C
- GIG → AEP · Buenos Aires F
- GIG → EZE · Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) C
Common questions
Are flights from Rio De Janeiro to Recife usually delayed?
91.55% of flights on the GIG to REC route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Rio De Janeiro to Recife?
Only Gol Linhas Aéreas appears in the published record on this route, with 164 flights and 93.29% arriving on time.
How often are GIG to REC flights cancelled?
0.47% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 5 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When GIG to REC flights are late, how late are they?
About 41 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 GIG to REC 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 →