VVI to GRU flight delays
Santa Cruz (VVI) São Paulo (GRU)
1,144 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · ANAC Brazil
64.26%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
8.04%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
50 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
19 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 37.8 points more often than Boliviana de Aviación 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: 8.04% 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 season swings this route hard. In May it ran 41 points more punctual than in February — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
The route has been getting worse. The later months run 13.6 points less punctual than the earlier ones. A drift of that size is rarely weather; it is more often an airline adding frequencies faster than the airports can absorb them.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over July 2024 – July 2026, Gol Linhas Aéreas arrived on time most often on VVI to GRU. Boliviana de Aviación was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in December.
Every airline on VVI to GRU
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boliviana de Aviación | 760 | 50.6% | 11.58% | 51 min | F |
| Gol Linhas Aéreas | 384 | 88.42% | 1.04% | 42 min | A |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
GRU to VVI São Paulo back to Santa Cruz 59.34% on time FOther routes from Santa Cruz
Common questions
Are flights from Santa Cruz to São Paulo usually delayed?
64.26% of flights on the VVI to GRU 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 Santa Cruz to São Paulo?
Gol Linhas Aéreas, at 88.42% on time across 384 flights. The least punctual on the route was Boliviana de Aviación at 50.6%.
How often are VVI to GRU flights cancelled?
8.04% 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.
What is the best month to fly Santa Cruz to São Paulo?
May, when 85.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was February at 44.1%.
When VVI to GRU flights are late, how late are they?
About 50 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 VVI to GRU 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 →