Flights Sao Paulo → Rome
GRU → FCO
Route overview
This flight route operates from São Paulo to Rome with a Boeing 777-200, featuring an impressive on-time performance rate of 100% and an average delay of just 0.4 minutes over the past fourteen flights. The origin airport in São Paulo opened in 1985, while the destination airport in Rome has been operational since 1947 and handles more than fifty million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Sao Paulo (GRU) → Rome (FCO) route is operated by ITA Airways. Across 14 flights monitored in recent months, 100% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 0 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 10.9/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Rome the average ATFM delay is 2.4 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Sao Paulo the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Rome: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Sao Paulo (GRU) to Rome (FCO) heads north-east for about 9,433 km, a flight time of roughly 12h 13m.
Departures from Sao Paulo on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 100% of GRU-FCO flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Sao Paulo the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Rome it is 2.4 min (atfm).
Across 14 tracked GRU-FCO flights, 100% left on time with an average delay of 0 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
Route facts
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| ITA Airways (AZ) | 59% | 35 min | 4.9% |
Airlines operating GRU-FCO
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Frequently asked questions about GRU-FCO
On the Sao Paulo (GRU) -> Rome (FCO) route, on-time performance is 100% with an average delay of 0 minutes, based on 14 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Sao Paulo-Rome is 0.00% across 14 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: ITA Airways.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
