GRU to MDE flight delays
São Paulo (GRU) Medellín (MDE)
53 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · ANAC Brazil
41.3%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
13.21%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
47 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: 13.21% 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.
Flights from São Paulo to Medellín arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
This route does worse than its own airport. GRU as a whole runs 35 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. MDE to GRU arrives on time 5.6 points more 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.
Every airline on GRU to MDE
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avianca | 53 | 41.3% | 13.21% | 47 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MDE to GRU Medellín back to São Paulo 46.94% on time —Other routes from São Paulo
Common questions
Are flights from São Paulo to Medellín usually delayed?
41.3% of flights on the GRU to MDE route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 6 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are GRU to MDE flights cancelled?
13.21% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 132 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When GRU to MDE flights are late, how late are they?
About 47 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 MDE during July 2024 – July 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 →