GOL Linhas Aéreas announced that it will start selling its flights to Uruguaiana (URG) this Friday, February 18. This announcement is part of an expansion in Rio Grande Do Sul, which includes landing in Pelotas (PET), Santo Ângelo (GEL), and Santa Maria (RIA), in addition to the three already covered in the state: Porto Alegre (POA), Caxias do Sul (CXJ) and Passo Fundo (PFB).
According to our Brazilian media partner, Aeroin, it will have three weekly frequencies. Those will be on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, both outbound and return. This will provide customers with access to GOL’s entire domestic air network and international connections at Guarulhos. Tickets are sold exclusively by GOL and will be operated by VOEPASS in ATR 72-600 aircraft, with a capacity for 68 passengers.
Schedules and Frequencies
«Uruguaiana is an important step by GOL to increase regional expansion in a state that, today, is already one of the best served by the Company: the Rio Grande do Sul. Consequently, with Brazil and the world, it is a way to contribute to the development not only of the region, stimulating new business and the generation of wealth. But of the whole country,» says Bruno Balan, Strategic Planning Manager of Air Mesh at GOL.
«It is a partnership that has already worked. We already have the Guarulhos-Pelotas flight in operation with GOL. In April, it will be Guarulhos-Uruguayana. In just over three hours, passengers will be able to take off from Uruguayana and land in São Paulo, on a direct flight. Thus, connecting the border between Brazil and Argentina with the economic heart of Brazil. And, still, in 2022, we will also have direct connections between São Paulo and the cities of Santo Ângelo and Santa Maria», celebrates the president of the Parliamentary Aviation Front of Rio Grande do Sul, Representative Frederico Antunes, from Uruguaiana.
The link will also facilitate the inhabitants of the Northeast of Argentina. This is because the Uruguaiana Airport is located 13 km from Paso de los Libres (Corrientes), 363 km from Posadas (Misiones), 378 km from the City of Corrientes, or 402 km from Resistencia (Chaco).
Currently, the Brazilian city has five weekly flights to Porto Alegre (POA) with Azul Brazilian Airlines. Additionally in the summer season, a service to Florianópolis (FLN) will be part of the expansion.
Three more new GOL destinations in the state
Uruguaiana-Guarulhos is GOL’s second new route in Rio Grande do Sul to be inaugurated in 2022. The first was Pelotas-Guarulhos, inaugurated on January 17, with four flights per week and operated on its Boeing 737-700, with a capacity for 138 passengers.
Meanwhile, the city of Santo Ângelo (GEL) will receive direct flights from the airline to Guarulhos, operated by GOL with the same Boeing 737-700 aircraft, starting July 4.
The Santa Maria (RIA)-Guarulhos (GRU) route, as well as Uruguaiana, is a partnership between GOL and VOEPASS, and will begin operations on October 26, 2022.
