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REC to CGH flight delays

Recife (REC) São Paulo (CGH)

454 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · ANAC Brazil

82.44%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.88%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

34 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

7 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Gol Linhas Aéreas arrived on time 9.2 points more often than LATAM Brasil 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.

This is a thin route — 454 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.

Flights from Recife to São Paulo keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, Gol Linhas Aéreas arrived on time most often on REC to CGH. LATAM Brasil was late most often.

Every airline on REC to CGH

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
Azul Linhas Aéreas 159 83.54% 0.63% 37 min B
Gol Linhas Aéreas 149 86.39% 1.34% 37 min B
LATAM Brasil 146 77.24% 0.68% 31 min C

Common questions

Are flights from Recife to São Paulo usually delayed?

82.44% of flights on the REC to CGH route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Recife to São Paulo?

Gol Linhas Aéreas, at 86.39% on time across 149 flights. The least punctual on the route was LATAM Brasil at 77.24%.

How often are REC to CGH flights cancelled?

0.88% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 9 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

When REC to CGH flights are late, how late are they?

About 34 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 REC to CGH 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 →