GRU to SCL flight delays
São Paulo (GRU) Santiago (SCL)
623 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil
56.02%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
8.03%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
67 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
32 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. JetSMART arrived on time 32.8 points more often than LATAM Airlines 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.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 8.03% 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.
This is a late route. Flights from São Paulo to Santiago miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. SCL to GRU arrives on time 16 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, JetSMART arrived on time most often on GRU to SCL. LATAM Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in July and worst in August.
Every airline on GRU to SCL
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 Airlines | 278 | 42.91% | 1.08% | 47 min | F |
| JetSMART | 111 | 75.73% | 7.21% | 165 min | F |
| LATAM Brasil | 84 | 50% | 0% | 41 min | — |
| SKY Airline | 80 | 76.32% | 5% | 74 min | — |
| Ethiopian Airlines | 39 | 0% | 89.74% | 560 min | — |
| Turkish Airlines | 31 | 80.65% | 0% | 36 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
SCL to GRU Santiago back to São Paulo 72.06% on time DOther routes from São Paulo
Common questions
Are flights from São Paulo to Santiago usually delayed?
56.02% of flights on the GRU to SCL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from São Paulo to Santiago?
JetSMART, at 75.73% on time across 111 flights. The least punctual on the route was LATAM Airlines at 42.91%.
How often are GRU to SCL flights cancelled?
8.03% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 80 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When GRU to SCL flights are late, how late are they?
About 67 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 SCL 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 →