Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport (REC)
A working profile of Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport in Recife, Brazil: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport
- Serves: Recife, Brazil
- Coordinates: -8.1265, -34.9236
- Elevation: 33 ft
- Time zone: America/Fortaleza
Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport sits inside the air network of Brazil. It shows 36 distinct scheduled departures across 18 destinations and 9 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from REC
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRU | Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport | Sao Paulo | Brazil | REC→GRU | 4 |
| SSA | Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport | Salvador | Brazil | REC→SSA | 4 |
| MIA | Miami International Airport | Miami | United States | REC→MIA | 3 |
| FOR | Pinto Martins International Airport | Fortaleza | Brazil | REC→FOR | 3 |
| BSB | Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek International Airport | Brasilia | Brazil | REC→BSB | 3 |
| GIG | Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport | Rio De Janeiro | Brazil | REC→GIG | 3 |
| AJU | Santa Maria Airport | Aracaju | Brazil | REC→AJU | 2 |
| CNF | Tancredo Neves International Airport | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | REC→CNF | 2 |
| FEN | Fernando de Noronha Airport | Fernando Do Noronha | Brazil | REC→FEN | 2 |
| PNZ | Senador Nilo Coelho Airport | Petrolina | Brazil | REC→PNZ | 2 |
| MCZ | Zumbi dos Palmares Airport | Maceio | Brazil | REC→MCZ | 1 |
| NAT | Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport | Natal | Brazil | REC→NAT | 1 |
| THE | Senador Petrônio Portela Airport | Teresina | Brazil | REC→THE | 1 |
| VCP | Viracopos International Airport | Campinas | Brazil | REC→VCP | 1 |
| PTY | Tocumen International Airport | Panama City | Panama | REC→PTY | 1 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | REC→FRA | 1 |
| JDO | Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport | Juazeiro Do Norte | Brazil | REC→JDO | 1 |
| LIS | Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) | Lisbon | Portugal | REC→LIS | 1 |
Airlines operating at REC
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from REC |
|---|---|---|---|
| AD | Azul | Brazil | 10 |
| G3 | Sky Express | Greece | 9 |
| JJ | TAM Brazilian Airlines | Brazil | 7 |
| O6 | Oceanair | Brazil | 5 |
| AA | American Airlines | United States | 1 |
| CM | Copa Airlines | Panama | 1 |
| DE | Condor Flugdienst | Germany | 1 |
| TP | TAP Portugal | Portugal | 1 |
| US | US Airways | United States | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into REC typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRU | Guarulhos - Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 4 |
| SSA | Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport | Salvador | Brazil | 4 |
| MIA | Miami International Airport | Miami | United States | 3 |
| FOR | Pinto Martins International Airport | Fortaleza | Brazil | 3 |
| BSB | Presidente Juscelino Kubistschek International Airport | Brasilia | Brazil | 3 |
| GIG | Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport | Rio De Janeiro | Brazil | 3 |
| AJU | Santa Maria Airport | Aracaju | Brazil | 2 |
| CNF | Tancredo Neves International Airport | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 2 |
| FEN | Fernando de Noronha Airport | Fernando Do Noronha | Brazil | 2 |
| PNZ | Senador Nilo Coelho Airport | Petrolina | Brazil | 2 |
| MCZ | Zumbi dos Palmares Airport | Maceio | Brazil | 1 |
| NAT | Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport | Natal | Brazil | 1 |
| THE | Senador Petrônio Portela Airport | Teresina | Brazil | 1 |
| VCP | Viracopos International Airport | Campinas | Brazil | 1 |
| PTY | Tocumen International Airport | Panama City | Panama | 1 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 1 |
| JDO | Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport | Juazeiro Do Norte | Brazil | 1 |
| LIS | Humberto Delgado Airport (Lisbon Portela Airport) | Lisbon | Portugal | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from REC on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list REC to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat REC as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.