Direct flights from Dubai (DXB) to Rio De Janeiro (GIG): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. 50% of the last 6 tracked flights arrived within 15 minutes of schedule. The median arrival is 35 minutes late. No cancellations were recorded across the 7 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 11,884 km, an estimated 15 hours 44 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at Dubai and Rio De Janeiro. Updated 31 October 2026 at 07:02 UTC.
Left DXB at 08:22, 17 min after its 08:05 slot.
Landing estimate from 58,740 tracked flights of 8 hours or longer that left 15 to 29 min late. The GIG board has not posted a landing time yet. How planes make up time
Track EK247 →Checked DXB board 11:02 · GIG board 03:23
of the last 6 tracked DXB → GIG flights arrived within 15 minutes
Median arrival delay is +35 min. 0 of 7 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights EK247 08:05 daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at DXB: a 37% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +13 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop DXB to GIG flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: Dubai (DXB) to Rio De Janeiro (GIG) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at DXB is the weaker end, route health score 93/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 11,884 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 869–1049 min gate-to-gate on this route.
EK/UAE Emirates runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at DXB and arrival-side delay at GIG, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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