SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GOL Linhas Aereas
Inteligentes S.A. (Bovespa: GOLL4 and NYSE: GOL), Brazil's low-cost airline
company, announces that it has received Anac (National Civil Aviation Agency)
approval to implement its new integrated route network. The new timetable,
currently available on the Company's website, will be effective beginning
October 19, 2008.
The new network compliments the Company's unified structure by eliminating
overlapping routes and schedules between GOL and VARIG. The new network will
also improve flight occupancy levels by allowing the Company to increase
offerings in markets where it has consolidated operations while also allowing
for new connections between previously unlinked cities.
'These network changes, implemented to optimize operations and increase
customer options, position GOL as the airline company with the most extensive
and convenient timetable in South America,' says Wilson Maciel Ramos, GOL's
vice-president, planning and IT. 'We now offer approximately 800 daily flights
to 49 destinations in Brazil and ten important international destinations in
South America.'
Under the new route network, GOL will operate the domestic flights and
short-haul flights to Asuncion (Paraguay), Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Rosario
(Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay), Lima (Peru, via Santiago), Santa Cruz de la
Sierra (Bolivia) and Santiago (via Buenos Aires). VARIG will operate medium-
haul international flights to Bogota (Colombia), Caracas (Venezuela) and
Santiago (Chile).
