São Paulo Airport (GRU): terminals, flights

Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo–Guarulhos (IATA: GRU, ICAO: SBGR) is a network point for São Paulo, Brazil. Our catalogue shows 0 departing routes and 1 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

GRU carries 1 routes and 3 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 12 weekly departures. Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo–Guarulhos (ICAO SBGR) serves São Paulo, Brazil, in the America/Sao_Paulo zone (UTC−3 in July). Its coordinates (-23.43556, -46.47306) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: GRU
• ICAO: SBGR
• City: São Paulo
• Country: Brazil
• Time zone: America/Sao_Paulo
• Coordinates: -23.43556, -46.47306
• Airlines at the airport: 3

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, São Paulo runs 3 h ahead of the Mexican capital (UTC−3 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC−3, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

Base of LATAM Airlines. An airline basing here means aircraft and crews overnighting at the airport: more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto, and more early departures. The flip side is that at an airport dominated by one carrier the competitive pressure on fares is weaker than where several compete.

What each code is for. The IATA code (GRU) is what the bag tag and the ticket use; the ICAO code (SBGR) is what flight plans, NOTAMs and flight trackers use. To follow the inbound aircraft that will become your flight, ICAO is the one that returns reliable results. And if GRU is not printed on your bag tag, the bag was not checked through to here — worth catching at the counter.

Airlines at GRU

3 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from GRU: 2 full-service and 1 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam. They cover 1 catalogued routes and 12 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

How this list is built. These are the airlines appearing in catalogued routes that touch GRU, not the airport’s full directory: a carrier that flies here but not on a pair we cover does not appear. The type — full-service or low-cost — and the allowance come from our own record for each carrier, and where the datum does not exist we say so rather than filling it with a plausible number.

25 kg separate the most generous operator from the leanest at GRU. That gap is what reorders prices once the bag is in: a cheaper base fare on a carrier with no included baggage can land above a full-service one the moment you check a single piece. Compare the total, not the headline figure.

Routes to São Paulo (GRU)

Our catalogue lists 1 routes into GRU, totalling 12 weekly departures and spanning 7,433 to 7,433 km. The busiest is MEX-GRU at ~12 flights a week; 0 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic GRU moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Latin American regional corridor (1). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 1 routes listed, 0 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Connection tips

GRU concentrates 12 catalogued weekly departures across 3 airlines, in the America/Sao_Paulo zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo–Guarulhos runs on the America/Sao_Paulo time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at GRU is MEX-GRU (~12 flights a week). Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from São Paulo; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

Other airports in Brazil

1 further Brazil airport appear in our catalogue besides GRU, with 1 routes between them. The best-connected is Rio de Janeiro (GIG) with 1 routes, and the nearest sits ~337 km great-circle from GRU. The 1 distances in this section are measured from each airport’s own coordinates.

Other airports in the same country in our catalogue, with the number of catalogued routes — useful if you need an alternative gateway:

Great-circle distance is not the transfer. The figures in the table are geodesic, computed from each airport’s coordinates; the real journey depends on whether road, rail or a domestic flight exists, and on what they cost. An airport 300 km away can be more accessible than one at 120 km if the first has a direct motorway and the second does not. Use them to rule out, not to plan.

When switching airport pays. Only when the fare gap beats the transfer plus the hotel night an early departure sometimes forces, and only with a comfortable margin: reaching the alternative airport by road introduces a risk the airline does not carry. Miss the flight in traffic and the ticket is not refunded; that risk should be netted off the saving before deciding.

FAQ

The 8 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for GRU: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for São Paulo airport? The IATA code is GRU and the ICAO code is SBGR. Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo–Guarulhos serves São Paulo, Brazil.

Which airlines operate at GRU? Airlines on our catalogued routes at GRU: Aeromexico, LATAM Airlines, Volaris.

How many routes are there from São Paulo (GRU)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes and 1 arriving at GRU — see the tables above.

What time zone is GRU in? GRU operates in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone.

How many weekly departures does GRU have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching GRU we count 12 weekly departures over 3 airlines and 1 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between São Paulo and Mexico City? In July, São Paulo runs 3 h ahead of Mexico City (UTC−3 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at GRU? Catalogued routes at GRU span 7,433 to 7,433 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

Which airlines are based at GRU? LATAM Airlines run GRU as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.