I have been confused about this topic for a while now. When I was at a layover in Amsterdam in December, I heard a gate change over the PA system that said “In terminal G, gate change for KLM, Delta, Jet Airways, and GOL Intelligent airlines
When I looked into this, however, I found that GOL only operates within the South and Central America and have never operated to Europe. Does anyone know why this happened? Does GOL secretly operate flights to Europe?
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No GOL do not fly to AMS. It’s a codeshare presumably.
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The announcement you heard was probably just one flight, but with codeshare from GOL and the other airlines you mentioned. For example, off the top of my head, Qatar Airways flight 702 has a codeshare with American Airlines. The QR aircraft goes to Doha with AAL codesharing.
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GOL partners with KLM
This happens with pretty much every airline.
A flight on Delta from KBOS to KATL could be a codeshare with Aeromexico for instance. There’s really nothing particularly unique about this.
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I know they codeshare, I was just surprised that they announced it as a GOL flight
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When there’s a codeshare flight all the airlines that ‘share’ the flight are announced as you can book it through all the airlines so people may not realise it’s being operated by someone else so they announce all of them.
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Yeah, your typical airline passenger is lucky if they can find their gate. You can’t expect them to know all the codeshares.
This was a codeshare between KLM and GOL. It’s abit like Qantas has a codeshare with Singapore Airlines and that’s like you see the Singapore Airlines logo on regional routes like Sydney to Melbourne when it’s not a fairy flight.
A fairy flight is a flight that takes an aircraft to the departure destination. The plane doesn’t carry any passengers…
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Very few airports announce the additional codeshare flight numbers that accompany the operating carrier’s flight numbers. In most airports, the departure board is really the only thing that even acknowledges that there is a codeshare flight associated, with the codeshare flight’s flight number and airline swapping with the operator’s flight number and airline for a few seconds.
It is likely that because Amsterdam is a major transit hub for passengers of many airlines and destinations (especially considering the tightness of the bonds between KLM (the main operator at the airport) and the partners you’ve mentioned (DL, 9W, G3)), the agents working at the airport have been asked to announce the codeshare flights mentioned. This is also true in other airports where both large numbers of passengers change flights and where it is likely to find bookings from multiple airlines with close codesharing agreements. I’d assume the same occurs in Frankfurt (a hub for Lufthansa, who has JVs with AC, UA, OS, LX, SQ, NH, and CA, and codeshares with many more partners), for example.
On the opposite side, I know that Delta has a few codeshares out of Boston (BOS), but the only flights that really have any acknowledgement of a codeshare partner are those to Paris-CDG, Amsterdam, and London (at least out of the Delta terminal). I’d assume this is because few (if any) passengers on other flights out of Boston have booked under a codeshare agreement, and that those 3 flights are the only ones where one could find a significantly higher number of codeshare passengers. When no one is flying under a codeshare, it’s really a waste of time to try and announce that it exists every time an announcement is made.
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Yea they dont. I fly GOL, they have a partnership with KLM
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GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes (Or GOL Intelligent Airlines) is a low-cost airline of Brazil with only 737 in the fleet. They cant cross the Atlantic (Actually, they can, but do not). So no, they don’t fly to Amsterdam.
they only fly to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguai, Bolivia (I guess) and the Dominican republic or something around
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