Galeão International (GIG, ICAO SBGL) serves Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of GIG and 2 African origins into it, served by 2 carriers.
At a glance
2 catalogued corridors touch Rio de Janeiro (GIG / SBGL) in Brazil: 0 outbound and 2 inbound, flown by 2 carriers. 0 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our weekly fare cache; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 0 sectors under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 2 beyond seven.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA / ICAO | GIG / SBGL |
| City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Country | Brazil |
| Direct destinations (catalogued) | 0 |
| Reached from (African origins) | 2 |
| Coordinates | -22.809, -43.244 |
The route mix at GIG splits into 0 short sectors under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 2 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 0 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.
Two codes, two uses. GIG is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while SBGL is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.
Airlines serving GIG
2 carriers appear on the GIG corridors covered here; for the 2 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg. That list is built from the 2 corridors this site catalogues through GIG, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.
These carriers operate the GIG corridors catalogued on this site.
| Airline | Alliance | Checked baggage | Hajj/Umrah charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAAG Angola Airlines (DT) | - | 23 kg | No |
| LATAM Airlines (LA) | - | 23 kg | No |
Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against carriers here: TAAG Angola Airlines +12 kg and LATAM Airlines +15 kg. These are carrier promotions attached to nominated corridors and fare families — they do not follow you onto a partner’s codeshare segment, and the cheapest fare buckets are usually excluded. Confirm against your own booking class rather than the table.
One limit on this list. It is built from the corridors this site catalogues through GIG, so it is a view of the routes we cover rather than the airport’s full published schedule. A carrier serving Rio de Janeiro on a route outside our catalogue will not appear above. Where an alliance or baggage cell is blank we hold no recorded value — read that as unknown, not as zero.
Top routes into GIG
Luanda to Rio de Janeiro (LAD–GIG) heads the GIG list below, at about 3 flights a week on DT and LA.
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our weekly cache recorded on the corridor across all carriers.
| Route | Carriers | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanda (LAD) → Rio de Janeiro (GIG) | DT, LA | ~3 | ~9.5 | — |
| Johannesburg (JNB) → Rio de Janeiro (GIG) | LA | ~3 | ~11.0 | — |
Three corridors carry roughly 100% of the 6 weekly departures our catalogue records at GIG, which makes the airport two different places depending on which flight you hold. Dense routes absorb disruption within the day. Thin ones do not, and rebooking onto another airline needs an interline agreement rather than goodwill.
Block times across these corridors run from about 9.5 h to 11.0 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at GIG: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.
Passenger compensation rights at GIG
1 instrument reaches GIG: the Montreal Convention 1999. Brazil operates no EU261-style fixed cash scheme, so there is no statutory payout for a long delay — the cover is for baggage, capped at 1,519 SDR per passenger, and for provable delay losses, capped at 6,303 SDR (ICAO limits in force since 28 December 2024).
Rio de Janeiro’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
Rio de Janeiro’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
Corridors and typical fares from GIG
0 of the 2 GIG corridors carry a cached USD quote, so most pricing here is planning-band rather than observed. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 0 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 2 beyond seven.
Most GIG corridors here serve intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business travellers. The mix is 2 long-haul routes (over 7 h). As rough planning ranges (editorial estimates, not observed fares): intra-Africa $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below shows the cached fare with the date it was found.
The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 0 short corridors under four hours from GIG price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 2 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.
Direct flights to GIG — 2 routes
2 catalogued routes are listed below for GIG, reaching 2 countries, led by Angola and South Africa. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 2 arrival corridors at GIG, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.
These are guides, not booking screens. Behind each link sit the operating carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled nonstop block time, the great-circle distance that would determine an EU261 or UK261 band where either regulation reaches the corridor, and any cached fare evidence we hold. Price is the last of those to matter, not the first.
The list covers this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable. We add corridors where there is a real audience among African travellers — diaspora, pilgrim, intra-Africa and business traffic — so a seasonal charter or a thin regional service out of Rio de Janeiro may be missing even though it operates. A blank fare means no cached quote rather than no service.
FAQ
5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.
How is GIG airport connected? GIG (Rio de Janeiro) is reachable on 2 direct routes in our catalogue — see the full route list above.
What are the IATA and ICAO codes for GIG airport? The IATA code is GIG and the ICAO code is SBGL. The airport serves Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
How can I check fares and schedules for routes through GIG? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.
Which airlines fly from GIG? Carriers on GIG corridors catalogued here: TAAG Angola Airlines, LATAM Airlines. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.
Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at GIG? No fixed cash-compensation scheme applies to Rio de Janeiro arrivals, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.
Sources
2 primary sources cited on this page are regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
Two-source discipline applies to every passenger-rights claim on this site: the regulator’s own text for the rule, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading. Where the two disagree, the regulator wins. Compensation figures stay in the currency of the instrument — euro for EU261, pound for UK261, Canadian dollar for APPR, SDR for Montreal — because converting them to USD would imply a precision the instruments do not have.
Related
- Flights to Brazil — country landing page: 6 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.