MAD to GIG flight delays
Madrid (MAD) Rio De Janeiro (GIG)
19 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil
This route flew fewer than 50 times in the period, which is too few for an on-time rate to mean anything. The figures below are shown as recorded, but the route is not graded.
15.79%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
92 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
78 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from Madrid to Rio De Janeiro 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. GIG to MAD arrives on time 28.7 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 MAD to GIG
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iberia | 19 | 15.79% | 0% | 92 min | — |
The return leg
GIG to MAD Rio De Janeiro back to Madrid 44.44% on time —Common questions
Are flights from Madrid to Rio De Janeiro usually delayed?
15.79% of flights on the MAD to GIG route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 8 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are MAD to GIG flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When MAD to GIG flights are late, how late are they?
About 92 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 MAD to GIG 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 →