Sao Paulo - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
Home country is United States. Many direct flights from Sao Paulo to the US, though almost all options are redeyes in both directions. Fewer or no direct options for most US destinations on the west coast or mountain west, but many options to east coast, southeast, Texas, Chicago, and of course Miami and Florida; typically ~10+ hour flight depending on destination. Most difficult part honestly is enduring the traffic to/from GRU airport. It can take anywhere from 45 minutes to 3 hours depending on time of day. - Jun 2024
KY. To Sao Paulo is about 15 hours via Atlanta. From Sao Paulo is about 18-20 hours via Atlanta, Chicago, New York, or Houston. - May 2021
Los Angeles, CA, United States. The trip from post is relatively easy however flight restrictions due to the pandemic have made it a bit more difficult. - Apr 2021
NY/DC...9-10 hour direct flights or 15 hours with a layover in ATL or Miami. Periodic flight sales. - Aug 2019
Home is Florida, USA. There are many direct flights from Sao Paulo to Miami, but they are long (9+ hours), pricey and usually overnight. Also, if you have pets, note that air travel can be an issue since Brazil is one of the countries that frequently does not permit pets in cabin -- most are required to be in baggage or cargo. - Nov 2017
Home is San Francisco. There is a flight from Sao Paulo to LAX a few days a week which is nice because the onward flight to SF is only 45 minutes. It's on American and can be pricey and isn't every day. For business, there are direct flights from Sao Paulo to DC, although for the time being, the government contract fare is inexplicably on Delta, so now people on official travel have to lay over in Atlanta before flying on to DC. Sad! - Apr 2017
New York, about 11 hours direct, with a few different airline options. A big benefit of Sao Paulo is that there are lots of international air routes. - Apr 2017
Pennsylvania, USA (about 13 hours with one connection) or nonstop from Newark. Orlando, FL - can find some non-stop (8-9 hours) and most from Miami are non-stop (8 hours). - Jan 2017
My home city/state is Houston, Texas.
Direct flights are available between Sao Paulo and Houston. Travel time is about 9 hours. - Jan 2017
11 hours to New York and nine hours to Atlanta. Very cheap flights these days. My wife and kids flew round-trip from Sao Paulo to New York for about US$500 per ticket recently. Easy 8-hour overnight flights to Miami, too. - Aug 2015
Direct flights to Dallas and Miami are easy to come by, the flight is about 9 hours. - Aug 2013
It takes about 9-10 hours to reach Washington, DC. There are direct flights with United and TAM. - Dec 2012
About a 10-hour flight to Washington, DC. There are daily direct flights to Sao Paulo from the major US hubs such as Washington DC, NYC, Miami (multiple a day!), Dallas, Chicago etc. - Jan 2012
Atlanta, 9 hours - Jan 2012
Wash, DC. The flight was 8 hours, direct, from Washington/Dulles airport. - Jan 2012
