RAO to SDU flight delays
Ribeirão Preto (RAO) Rio de Janeiro (SDU)
119 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · ANAC Brazil
60%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
20.17%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
92 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
38 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: 20.17% 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 Ribeirão Preto to Rio de Janeiro miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
This route does worse than its own airport. RAO as a whole runs 23.2 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. SDU to RAO arrives on time 12.3 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 July 2024 – July 2026, Voepass Linhas Aéreas arrived on time most often on RAO to SDU. Flights ran closest to schedule in September and worst in August.
Every airline on RAO to SDU
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voepass Linhas Aéreas | 119 | 60% | 20.17% | 92 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Common questions
Are flights from Ribeirão Preto to Rio de Janeiro usually delayed?
60% of flights on the RAO to SDU 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 airlines fly from Ribeirão Preto to Rio de Janeiro?
Only Voepass Linhas Aéreas appears in the published record on this route, with 119 flights and 60% arriving on time.
How often are RAO to SDU flights cancelled?
20.17% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 202 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When RAO to SDU 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 RAO to SDU 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 →