We construct examples of curves defined over the finite field urce">Fq6 which are covered by the GK-curve. Thus such curves are maximal over urce">Fq6 although they cannot be covered by the Hermitian curve for urce">q>2. We also give examples of maximal curves that cannot be Galois covered by the Hermitian curve over the finite field urce">Fq2n with urce">n>3 odd and urce">q>2. We point out some applications to codes related to an array coming from telescopic semigroups.