Gol Airlines
Gol Airlines is a well-known international airline with its extensive network of destinations. It is based in Brazil and is rated as the second largest airlines of Brazil. It was founded in 2000. Gol Airlines is also referred as Gol Transportes Aereos in Brazil. The head office of Gol Airlines is located in San Paolo but the airline has its representative offices all over Brazil providing its customers an easy accessibility for booking and inquiry. The main stations of Gol Airlines are São Paulo's Congonhas International Airport, Rio de Janeiro's Galeão International Airport and Brasília International Airport - Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek. Gol Airline is also operating a subsidiary airline named Varig airline, which provides service for both domestic and international destinations. The ownership of Gol Airlines is with an eminent business group of Brazil known as Grupo Áurea. This business corporation of Brazil is a mega business enterprise and is mainly concerned with transport in Brazil.
Among the prominent features of Gol Airlines is its low-cost airfare for its passengers. The airline aims at providing traveling chances to all those people who have a moderate income and cannot afford to spend huge sums of money on air travel. Gol Airlines also understands the growing needs of world population, which have added air travel as a necessity to their lives. By developing a strategy of concentrating low fares, Gol Airlines has provided a chance to international travelers to choose Gol Airline as the best solution for their problems. This strategy has helped the airline to be the busiest airline and ultimately added profit to the company’s accounts. Thus Gol Airlines is the choice of many people around the globe who have established their confidence on the airline as the best alternative of safety, comfort moderate fare.
Since the times of its foundation, Gol Airlines has made a tremendous progress and expanded its business to considerable lengths. Presently, the company has got a huge setup and an extensive network of flights around the globe. The fleet of Gol Airline includes 65 aircrafts of excellent quality with all safety measures. All the planes of the company are of Boeing 737 series, which fulfill the criterion of international traveling. The aircrafts of Gol Airline land on fifty-seven world-known airports and thus Gol Airline provides its customers a wide range of international destinations. The unfortunate incident of September of 2006 when an aircraft of Gol Airline collided in the air with a smaller aircraft and fell on the Amazon River affected the reputation of the company badly. It influenced the company’s business all over the world but gradually Gol Airline restored its prestige and the confidence of the people again. Gol Airline does not have many tragic events in its history apart from the event of 2006.
After the event many safety measures were added to the existing structure of the company on ground as well as to the planes. In the wake of its strenuous efforts to avoid any such event in future, Gol Airlines is again gaining popularity among the international travelers. |