GRU to JFK flight delays
São Paulo (GRU) New York, NY (JFK)
95 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil and US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
79.12%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.21%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
133 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
29 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.21% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The two directions do not behave alike. JFK to GRU arrives on time 18.3 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.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 133 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
The São Paulo to New York route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.
Every airline on GRU to JFK
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 | 33 | 66.67% | 0% | 61 min | — |
| Delta Air Lines | 31 | 77.78% | 12.9% | 282 min | — |
| American Airlines | 31 | 93.55% | 0% | 82 min | — |
The return leg
JFK to GRU New York back to São Paulo 60.87% on time —Other routes from São Paulo
Common questions
Are flights from São Paulo to New York usually delayed?
79.12% of flights on the GRU to JFK route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
How often are GRU to JFK flights cancelled?
4.21% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 42 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When GRU to JFK flights are late, how late are they?
About 133 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 GRU to JFK 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 →