Brazilian airline GOL Linhas Aéreas has announced that it will increase the number of weekly flights from Brasília International Airport (BSB) in the United States. GOL currently operates Miami International Airport (MIA) and Orlando International Airport (MCO) from this location using its Boeing 737 MAX 8 on two of the longest -running aircraft. and a stop with this aircraft model. Let’s find out more.
Adding frequencies
GOL just reopened its routes between Brazil and the United States two years ago due to the COVID-19 virus. The flight resumed in Orlando and Miami on May 13 and 17, respectively, with a few lines a week.
On July 1, GOL began offering daily departures, increasing by 80% its number of flights and seats. Read also : Flight Shutdown, Delay, & Travel Disruption: Summer Travel Nightmare.
Airlines that stay on the same schedule, which appeals to customers from different parts of Brazil, can quickly connect to Brasília and complete the entire trip to Florida in one day.
Bruno Balan, GOL’s Strategic Airline Planning Manager, said,
“GOL is ready to make local connections to the US in just 50 minutes, especially for connected flights from Congonhas, Guarulhos, RIOgaleão, Santos Dumont, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belém, Curitiba, Florianópolis and Porto Alegre.”
GOL has expanded its flights to Orlando and Miami. Now it flies every day. Photo: Lukas Souza | Easy Repair.
The routes
To take advantage of these methods, GOL is using its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which, according to international broadcasts, has a capacity for 176 passengers. To see also : Basics of Parents Travel Baby Apparatus for Holidays.
The daily G3 7602 flight departs Brasília at 9:50 a.m. and arrives in Orlando at 17:10 (local time).
Meanwhile, the return flight from Orlando to the Brazilian capital (flight G3 7601) leaves at 22:10 and arrives at 7:10 the next day. On the way to Miami, it departs at 10:00 from Brasília (G3 7748) and lands at 17:05. The return flight, G3 7749, departs at 21:30, arriving in Brasília at 6:20.
These two routes are one of the longest uninterrupted services currently available on the Boeing 737 MAX.
The flight between Brasília and Orlando is 3,778 miles long, and is the longest in the world, surpassing the Aerolíneas Argentinas flight between Buenos Aires and Punta Cana (3,728 miles).
Currently, the flight between Brasília and Miami is the fourth-longest on a MAX aircraft, flying 3,598 miles (the third-longest also operated by GOL, between or Brasilia and Cancún).
GOL operates three of the five longest -running Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the world. Image: Getty Images.
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Last month, GOL and Aerolíneas Argentinas deepened their codeshare agreement by launching a “bridge” between São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport and Buenos Aires ’Aeroparque. On the same subject : BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Get ready for a busy summer travel season.
As of July 2022, GOL Linhas Aéreas is offering approximately 4,158 weekly flights to Brazil and the United States. Compared to 2019 standards, GOL still has to recover 25% of its traffic volume before the disease (although, in terms of revenue, the airline has recovered).
In terms of passengers, GOL carried 10.69 million passengers a year, according to data provided by Brazil’s civil aviation authority.
GOL is in third place in terms of passengers carried, after LATAM (11.48 million passengers) and Azul (10.85 million passengers). Internationally, only 230,278 passengers were carried by GOL in 2022.
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