GOL Linhas Aéreas will inaugurate a new international route between São Paulo (GRU) and Caracas (CCS) starting August 5, 2025, with four weekly flights. Tickets are already available for purchase.
According to the airline, this will be its seventeenth international route outside Brazil and will operate from Guarulhos International Airport, GOL’s primary hub for international connections. The carrier highlights that more than 30 domestic destinations can be accessed from Guarulhos, enabling quick connections to other regions of the country.
São Paulo will also offer improved connectivity with several Spanish-speaking cities, including Montevideo (MVD), Buenos Aires (AEP), Asunción (ASU), and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (VVI), in addition to key domestic locations such as Foz do Iguaçu (IGU), which serves as a corridor to neighboring countries like Argentina and Paraguay.
This new link with Venezuela is part of GOL’s broader international expansion from São Paulo. In 2024, the airline launched direct flights from Guarulhos to San José (Costa Rica) and Aruba, and boosted its offerings to Argentina with additional routes to Buenos Aires/Aeroparque (AEP) and Córdoba (COR).
Originally, GOL had planned to resume service to Venezuela via a route from Brasília (BSB), with a stop in Bogotá (BOG), Colombia, before continuing to Caracas.
However, that plan was ultimately derailed by insurmountable diplomatic and regulatory challenges. The ongoing political situation in Venezuela has strained relations with several neighboring countries, leading nations like Panama and Peru to suspend air links.
Efforts to renegotiate the bilateral air agreement between Colombia and Venezuela, which would have allowed GOL to operate the Bogotá–Caracas leg under fifth freedom rights, were unsuccessful. The current agreement places a strict cap on the total number of daily flights between the two countries for all airlines, preventing GOL from adding services on that segment. Even Avianca, GOL’s sister airline within the Abra Group, is affected by the same restrictions.
Faced with these limitations, GOL decided to revise its strategy, opting for a direct route from its main hub in São Paulo.
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