SDU to RAO flight delays
Rio de Janeiro (SDU) Ribeirão Preto (RAO)
119 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · ANAC Brazil
72.34%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
21.01%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
107 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
30 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: 21.01% 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. RAO to SDU arrives on time 12.3 points less 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. SDU as a whole runs 15.5 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.
Only Voepass Linhas Aéreas flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over July 2024 – July 2026, Voepass Linhas Aéreas arrived on time most often on SDU to RAO. Flights ran closest to schedule in July and worst in August.
Every airline on SDU to RAO
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 | 72.34% | 21.01% | 107 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Common questions
Are flights from Rio de Janeiro to Ribeirão Preto usually delayed?
72.34% of flights on the SDU to RAO route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Rio de Janeiro to Ribeirão Preto?
Only Voepass Linhas Aéreas appears in the published record on this route, with 119 flights and 72.34% arriving on time.
How often are SDU to RAO flights cancelled?
21.01% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 210 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When SDU to RAO flights are late, how late are they?
About 107 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 SDU to RAO 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 →