Gol Linhas Aéreas
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| IATA code : | G3 |
| ICAO code : | GLO |
| Call sign : | GOL |
| Founding: | 2000 |
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São Paulo , Brazil
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| Home airport : | São Paulo-Congonhas |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| Management: | Paulo Kakinoff ( CEO ) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Smiles |
| Fleet size: | 130 (+ 95 orders) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.voegol.com.br |
Gol Linhas Aéreas ( Gol for short ) is a Brazilian low-cost airline based in São Paulo and bases at São Paulo-Congonhas and Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont airports . Gol is the second largest airline in Brazil.
history
Gol was founded in 2000; the first flight was on January 15, 2001. Initially, it belonged to the Brazilian group of companies Grupo Áurea , which is owned by the Constantino de Oliveira family. This family was added to the Forbes Dollar Billionaires List by Gol . Gol acquired Varig in 2007 and Webjet in 2011 . On June 24, 2004, the airline went with an offer to sell on the São Paulo and New York stock exchanges. It is now owned by AeroPar Participações (77%), Venture (17.6%) and the American International Group (5.4%).
In April 2007, Gol bought the traditional but ailing state carrier VARIG . Both airlines, however, continued to operate as independent branches with clearly defined business models: While Gol concentrated on the low-cost sector, the VARIG brand was mainly used for international (long) routes until August 31, 2008. In June 2009, however, all of VARIG's independent flights were discontinued, so VARIG has not had its own flight operations since then. The VARIG aircraft have been used on Gol routes since then, and their brand name continues to appear in this function.
In 2011 Delta Air Lines bought three percent and in 2014 Air France-KLM bought 1.5 percent of the shares in Gol.
aims
In addition to mainly Brazilian destinations, the following destinations are served internationally:
- Aruba
- Asunción
- Atlanta
- Barbados
- Buenos Aires
- Caracas
- Cordoba
- Detroit
- Montevideo
- Miami
- new York
- Orlando
- Panama City
- Punta Cana
- Rosario
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Santo Domingo
fleet
As of April 2020, the Gol Linhas Aéreas fleet consists of 130 aircraft with an average age of 10.5 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats | Average age
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| Boeing 737-700 | 23 | 138 | 16.4 years | ||
| Boeing 737-800 | 100 | 186 | 9.8 years | ||
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 7th | 95 | all inactive | 186 | 1.5 years |
| total | 130 | 95 | 10.5 years |
The airline has also operated 15 Boeing 737-300s in the past .
incident
On September 29, 2006, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 - a Boeing 737-800 - crashed with 154 occupants on the flight from Manaus to Brasília over the Amazon region. There were no survivors in the accident, making it the second worst airplane accident in Brazilian history. According to GOL, the aircraft was only put into service on September 12, 2006 and had only completed 200 hours of flight. The cause of the accident was a collision with a twin- engine Embraer Legacy 600 on the opposite course, which was slightly damaged and could make an emergency landing on a military airfield; the seven crew members and passengers were uninjured. The cause of the accident was that the Embraer was flying at the wrong altitude and its transponder was switched off, which also meant that the collision warning system did not work. This was the result of a number of mistakes, mainly by the air traffic controllers, but also by the crew of the Embraer.
See also
Web links
- Gol Transportes Aéreos website (Portuguese, Spanish and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nenê voa alto ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Veja Online, accessed August 5, 2012 (pt)
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com Air France-KLM joins Gol in Brazil , aerotelegraph.com, accessed on February 24, 2014
- ↑ a b c d GOL Transportes Aéreos Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 13, 2020, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries (English), accessed on April 14, 2020
- ↑ www.voegol.com.br - Our Fleet (English), accessed on February 1, 2019
- ↑ Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center - www.ntsb.gov ( Memento of June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Official accident report (English)
