LATAM to link São Paulo and Geneva with first nonstop flights
The Brazilian carrier will fly Boeing 787-9s to the Swiss city three times a week from April 2027 — Geneva’s first ever direct link with Latin America.
By Nicky Byrne · Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
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LATAM Brasil will launch nonstop flights between São Paulo/Guarulhos and Geneva in April 2027, the airline announced on Friday, giving the Swiss city its first direct connection with Latin America.
The route will operate three times a week with Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Flights will depart Guarulhos on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 18:05, landing in Geneva at 09:55 the following morning. The return service leaves Geneva on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 12:05, arriving back in São Paulo at 18:55. All times are local and subject to change.
Tickets go on sale on Sunday, 1 November, through the airline’s own channels. The launch remains subject to government approval.
Geneva becomes LATAM Brasil’s 11th European destination and its 33rd international destination overall. The carrier already flies from Guarulhos to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Rome. Amsterdam joined the network in March this year and Brussels in June, the latter also flown three times a week with the 787-9 — the same pattern now being replicated in Switzerland.
Today Switzerland has just one nonstop link with Brazil: SWISS’s service between Guarulhos and Zurich, which continues to Buenos Aires. LATAM Brasil will be the second Brazilian airline ever to serve Geneva, after the defunct Varig, which flew the route in partnership with Swissair between 1972 and 1978.
At Guarulhos, the new flight will connect with LATAM’s domestic Brazilian network and with onward services to Chile, Peru and Colombia. At the Geneva end, agreements with 18 partner airlines will open connections to cities including Istanbul, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich.
Cargo is a significant part of the business case. The 787-9’s holds will offer a weekly capacity of 55 tonnes to Geneva and 36 tonnes in the opposite direction, and the airline estimates the service will cut at least eight hours off transit times for certain shipments to Switzerland, which today complete their journey by road from other European airports. From South America, LATAM is targeting dry cargo, components, industrial parts and high-value-added products; on the return leg, high-value goods, active ingredients and cold-chain medicines. Pharmaceutical traffic is a growth area for the group: between January and July, the volume of pharmaceutical products carried from Europe to Brazil by LATAM’s cargo subsidiaries rose 150 per cent compared with the same period in 2025.
LATAM Brasil chief executive Jerome Cadier said the company is “efficiently expanding passenger and cargo connectivity with Europe” and described Geneva as “an important hub for business and diplomacy, with demand for corporate travel and tourism, especially in the European winter.”