Madrid to Fortaleza flight

Flights from Madrid to Fortaleza start at €630.85 and take 12h 37m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Madrid to Fortaleza starts at €630.85 and takes 12h 37m door to door, run by 1 operator over 6,235 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 37mDoor to door
  • 9h 27mMoving
  • €630.85From
  • 922.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€512.85
  1. Orbest O425207:301h 10m08:40Madrid MADLisbon LIS
  2. TAP Portugal TA349210:187h 50m18:08Lisbon LISFortaleza FOR

Changes at Lisbon, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 13h 48mCO2 981.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€608.43
  1. Iberia Airlines IA599506:529h 27m16:19Madrid MADFortaleza FOR

Door to door 12h 37mCO2 922.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Iberia Airlines€594.2711h 27m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Iberia Airlines

The flight gets you into Fortaleza. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Estação Ferroviária João Felipe

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Booking window

When to book Madrid to Fortaleza

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €755.9390 days
  2. €428.4860 days
  3. €438.5145 days
  4. €427.3030 days
  5. €587.1921 days
  6. €924.0814 days
  7. €981.907 days
  8. €1,061.553 days
  9. €1,623.821 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €427.30.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 280 percent. The most expensive point is €1,623.82, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €796.64Sun
  2. €630.85Mon
  3. €717.58Tue
  4. €666.84Wed
  5. €830.27Thu
  6. €756.52Fri
  7. €924.08Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Madrid

Air
  • MAD

Fortaleza

Air
  • FOR
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 6,235 km against 6,054 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Paris, Salvador, Recife, Lisbon. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Madrid at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Madrid to Fortaleza

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza take?

The Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza takes 12h 37m door to door, of which 9h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 6,235 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza cost?

The Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza starts at €630.85 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €689.85. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza?

1 operators run the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza: Iberia Airlines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza use?

The Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza leaves from Madrid MAD and arrives at Fortaleza FOR. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza?

Fares for the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €427.30. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 280 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza produce?

The Flight from Madrid to Fortaleza produces about 922.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6235 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Madrid to Fortaleza on September 12, 2026: 6235 km of route against 6054 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €630.85, and 12h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Landing at FOR after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from FOR into Fortaleza

Settled in advance, so the ride into Fortaleza costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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