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GOL's Announces Traffic Statistics for February 2005; Company Commemorates Rapid Success of Argentina Flights.


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: GOL) (Bovespa: GOLL4), Brazil's low-fare, low-cost airline, today released passenger statistics for the month of February 2005. In domestic market flights, revenue passenger kilometers increased 5.8% over the same month in 2004, and load factor was 71%. In international market flights (between Brazil and Argentina) load factor was 77%. Domestic market share was 24% and International market share was 2%.

GOL currently operates twenty-seven 737 aircraft. Since December 2004, GOL dedicated two of its fleet to operate regular daily flights between five Brazilian cities and Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. , Argentina. Capitalizing on its new Buenos Aires base, during the February summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district.  - a month of increased leisure passenger travel - GOL ran a highly successful night flight service between the cities of Navegantes and Buenos Aires. Also during the month of February, GOL increased its overall fleet size by two aircraft to 29. The two additional aircraft will begin transporting passengers in the Brazilian market at the end of March 2005.
Operating Data                          February  February
                                          2005      2004    Change (%)
Domestic Market
Available Seat Kilometers -
ASK (mm) (1)                              782.3     679.6        15.1%
Revenue Passenger Kilometers -
RPK (mm) (2)                              553.7     523.2         5.8%
Load Factor (3)                            70.8%     77.0%   -6.2 p.p.
International Market
Available Seat Kilometers -                             na          na
ASK (mm) (1)                               54.1
Revenue Passenger Kilometers -                          na          na
RPK (mm) (2)                               41.5
Load Factor (3)                            76.7%        na          na

    1.  Available seat kilometers represents the aircraft seating
        capacity multiplied by the number of kilometers the seats are
        flown.

    2.  Revenue passenger kilometers represents the numbers of
        kilometers flown by revenue passengers.

    3.  Load factor represents the percentage of aircraft seating
        capacity that is actually utilized (calculated by dividing
        revenue passenger kilometers by available seat kilometers).
Source: Department of Civil Aviation (DAC)


About GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, the Brazilian "low-cost, low-fare" airline, is one of the most profitable and fastest growing airlines in the industry worldwide. GOL has a simplified fleet of Boeing 737s The Boeing 737 is an American short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body jet airliner. With over 7,000 ordered and over 5,000 delivered, it is the most ordered and produced commercial passenger jet of all time and has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967.  with a single-class of service.
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