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GOL Begins Ticket Sales to Lima, Peru
Sao Paulo, January 16, 2007 – GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (NYSE: GOL and Bovespa: GOLL4), Brazil’s low-cost, low-fare airline, today began ticket sales to Lima, Peru. The Peruvian capital is GOL’s eighth international destination – the Company currently flies to Buenos Aires, Rosário and Córdoba (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay), Assuncion (Paraguay), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolívia) and Santiago (Chile). Two daily flights will depart to Lima, one from São Paulo and one from Santiago, Chile.
The Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has authorized GOL to operate 14 regular flights per week to Lima on its Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft. “By expanding operations to Lima, our eighth international destination, GOL demonstrates its commitment to popularizing air transportation in South America,” says GOL’s Vice-President of Marketing and Services, Tarcísio Gargioni.
Peru, whose economy grew 6.7percent in 2005, is home to 27.9 million residents and is one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America. According to information from the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, business between Brazil and Peru has increased from US$1.4 billion in 2005 to US$2 billion in 2006 (January to November 2006). Exports from Brazil to Peru have increased from US$933 million to US$1.3 billion in the same period and imports from US$459 million to US$706 million. Last November, Brazil and Peru signed 12 bilateral agreements to further strengthen relationships between the two countries.
The World Tourism Organization estimates that approximately 80,000 Brazilians visited Peru in 2005, while more than 60,000 Peruvians traveled to Brazil over the same period.
Tickets are available for purchase by telephone, through your travel agent, or on GOL’s website, www.voegol.com.br. Please see the destination table below for flight departure schedules:
| Origin | Destination | Frequency | Departure | Arrival |
| São Paulo (Guarulhos) |
Lima | Daily | 10:00 PM | 0:10 AM |
| Lima | São Paulo (Guarulhos) |
Daily | 1:50 AM | 8:20 AM |
| Santiago do Chile | Lima | Daily | 10:15 PM | 2:00 AM |
| Lima | Santiago do Chile | Daily | 2:40 AM | 7:00 AM |
About GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes is one of the most profitable and fastest growing low-cost, low-fare airlines in the industry worldwide. GOL provides frequent service on routes connecting all of Brazil’s major cities as well as primary destinations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay through its more than 600 daily flights to 55 major airports. GOL offers daily flights to more destinations in Brazil than any other domestic airline while providing customers with the most convenient flight schedules in the country. GOL operates a young, modern fleet of Boeing 737s, the safest and most comfortable aircraft of its class, with low maintenance, fuel and training costs, and high aircraft utilization and efficiency ratios. In addition to safe and reliable service, which stimulates GOL’s brand recognition and customer satisfaction, the Company’s single class of service is recognized as the best value proposition in the market. GOL’s growth plans include increasing frequencies in existing markets and adding service to additional markets in both Brazil and other high-traffic South American travel destinations. GOL shares are listed on the NYSE and the Bovespa. GOL: here everyone can fly!
For more information, flight times and fares, please access our site at www.voegol.com.br or call: 0300-789-2121 in Brasil, 0810-266-3131 in Argentina, 800-1001-21 in Bolivia, 0004 055 127 in Uruguay, 009 800 55 1 0007 in Paraguay, 1 888 0042 0090 or 1230 020 9104 in Chile, 0800 52 900 in Peru and 55 11 2125-3200 in other countries.
CONTACT: GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A.
| Investor Relations | Corporate Communications | |
| Ph: (5511) 3169 6800 | Ph: (5511) 3169 6449 | |
| E-mail: ri@golnaweb.com.br | E-mail: rcorbioli@golnaweb.com.br | |
| Site: www.voegol.com.br/ir | ||
| Media – Brazil & Latin America | Media – U.S. & Europe | |
| MVL Comunicação; D. Barbará and E. | Edelman; G. Juncadella and M. Smith | |
| Oliveira | Ph: +1 (212) 704-4448 / 704-8196 | |
| Ph: (5511) 3049-0333 / 0341 | E-mail:gabriela.juncadella@edelman.com | |
| E-mail: daniela.barbara@mvl.com.br; | meaghan.smith@edelman.com | |
| eduardo.oliveira@mvl.com.br | ||
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the prospects of the business, estimates for operating and financial results, and those related to growth prospects of GOL. These are merely projections and, as such, are based exclusively on the expectations of GOL’s management concerning the future of the business and its continued access to capital to fund the Company’s business plan. Such forward-looking statements depend, substantially, on changes in market conditions, government regulations, competitive pressures, the performance of the Brazilian economy and the industry, among other factors and risks disclosed in GOL’s filed disclosure documents and are, therefore, subject to change without prior notice.
GOL LINHAS AÉREAS INTELIGENTES S.A. |
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/S/ Richard F. Lark, Jr.
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Name: Richard F. Lark, Jr.
Title: Executive Vice President – Finance, Chief Financial Officer |
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