When you have to travel by air, a person willy-nilly thinks about which airline to fly with. After all, safety is important on a trip like this. I also want to travel in comfort. If you have a flight with transfers, it is advisable to spend less time at transit airports. A future passenger wants to know about the allowed weight of luggage and hand luggage, when check-in opens and whether it is possible to check-in online. Therefore, the interest in carrier companies is quite understandable.
So, the focus of this article today is Polish Airlines. The full name of the company sounds like LOT Polish Airlines. What awaits the clients of this firm? What air park does she have? What services does the carrier provide on board? Does he have any bonus programs? We will tell you all this below. We got information about Polish Airlines mainly from traveler reviews.
History and present
Polishairlines have been present on the passenger air transportation market for eighty-seven years! Honorable time to start trusting the company! It was founded in 1929. But the company made its first flight in April 1930, when the plane, which started from Warsaw, landed successfully in Bucharest. Since then, the company has been tirelessly replenishing and updating its fleet, expanding the map of destinations.
LOT's motto is "Perfection in everything!". And this slogan indicates that great attention is paid to convenience and comfort in flight. Now LOT is the main national airline of Poland. She is a member of the authoritative union "Star Alliance". The headquarters of the company is located at the address: Warsaw, Žvirki and Vigury street, 1. The base airports are considered to be the metropolitan hub named after. Frederic Chopin and the air harbor of Krakow.
Airplane Fleet
The airline boasts one of the youngest fleets in the world. There are fifty-one cars in the park. Only new and modern liners, according to the assurances of passengers, serve to the gangway "Polish Airlines". Photos of snow-white beauties with a blue line on the side and the LOT logo in the front and on the tail often reinforce the laudatory reviews of travelers.
For transatlantic flights, the company has six "Boeing 767" with a wide body. Nine Boeing 737 (modifications 400 and 800), Boeing 787-8 and ten Embraers 170 plow the sky over Europe. Regional flights are madethirteen ATP turboprops of modifications 42-500 and 72. Also, communication between Polish cities was established on 13 comfortable Embraers of versions 13 and 145. In total, the company's fleet has seven types of aircraft. The average age of these liners is eight years.
Directions
Polish Airlines LOT directly fly to forty-nine airports in 31 states. But because of the Star alliance membership and codeshare agreements, the travel map of the firm's clients is expanding significantly. Its passengers have access to seven hundred air harbors in 128 countries of the world. Moreover, as the reviews assure, the company strives to make sure that waiting at transit airports is reduced to a minimum.
LOT liners deliver passengers from Poland to Greece (Athens, Larnaca), Amsterdam and Brussels, Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), France (Lyon, Nice, Paris), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt am Main), Switzerland (Zurich and Geneva), Italy (Venice, Milan, Rome), Great Britain (London and Manchester). The airline operates transatlantic flights to Chicago, New York, Toronto. On its liners you can also get to the Middle East - to Beirut, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, as well as to the countries of Scandinavia.
Flying to neighbors
In fact, the entire sky of Central Europe was covered by the routes of Polish Airlines. With them you can get to Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia. A huge number of flights to Ukraine, which makes"LOT" ("Polish Airlines"): to Odessa, Lvov, Kyiv, Kharkov. Immediately after the introduction of a visa-free regime for this country, the company's management announced that it would increase the number of existing flights. In addition, new directions will open: to the Dnieper, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and Rivne. There will be three flights to Lviv from Warsaw daily (instead of two). Communication with Russia has been established with Moscow (Sheremetyevo), Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. The company's liners deliver passengers to Minsk, the capitals of the B altic republics and even to distant Astana.
Map of regional flights
The company also tried itself as a low-cost airline. She founded a subsidiary of Center-Wings. However, it did not justify the hopes placed on it and was liquidated in 2009. However, the company has a second "daughter". It is called "Eurolot". It is used by Polish Airlines to fly between cities in Poland.
We have already mentioned that the company is based in Warsaw and Krakow. But the geography of domestic flights is much wider. Liners with a blue ribbon on their sides fly to Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, Zielona Gora and Gdansk, Lodz and Katowice, Rzeszow, Poznan and Szczecin. Reviews report that comfortable Bombardiers of the Q Dash 400 modification are also used for such trips. The map of destinations would expand relentlessly if it were economically justified. But for long-haul flights, the situation is different. The company's management is thinking about the development of Asia. Communication between Warsaw and Tokyo, Poland and SouthKorea.
Services at LOT Polish Airlines
Wherever you fly with LOT - domestic or international, you will always be surrounded by the highest comfort. At least that's what the reviews say. Friendly guides will meet you at the gangway, help you place your luggage on the shelves for hand luggage. Drinks are served shortly after takeoff. This is if the flight is short. If it lasts more than two hours, you will be provided with a full meal.
The delay of the plane (and even more so the cancellation of the flight) of the Polish Airlines company is an extraordinary event. Passengers lavish especially much praise on the comfortable cabins of LOT liners. Armchairs are wide, with reclining backs. The passage between them is quite wide. All salons are divided into general and business class. The latter is located in front of the liner. In the business class, not only is the level of service higher, but the distance between the rows of seats is also greater. Also, the reviews report on the courtesy and helpfulness of the flight attendants. During the flight, they take care of the comfort and safety of passengers.
Luggage
Many travelers are interested in the question of how heavy a suitcase should be in order not to have to pay extra for overweight. LOT Polish Airlines has clear rules regarding this.
On flights to Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, China, the United States and Canada, a business class passenger can take three pieces of baggage of 32 kilograms each. on the liners,transatlantic flights, there is also a compartment for the premium class in the cabin. Its passengers are en titled to check in two pieces of baggage of 23 kilograms. And others can check in only one suitcase or bag with a total weight of 23 kg. On international flights (including flights to the Middle East and North Africa), business class passengers check in two items of 32 kilograms each, and premium passengers the same number of items, but already 23 kg.
Flights in Poland are carried out on liners that do not have division into compartments. All passengers on domestic flights can check in one suitcase weighing up to 23 kg. Hand luggage, according to the rules of the airline, is one bag or briefcase up to eight kilograms. For an extra piece of baggage or excess weight, a fee of forty euros will be charged.
Polish Airlines reviews
In general, the passengers were satisfied with their journey aboard "LOT". Liners are very comfortable, with good sound insulation. There are several toilets on board, so there are no queues. When landing, they give the press. The flight attendants are very friendly and helpful. But they strictly suppress any hooligan behavior of passengers on board. Flights depart strictly on schedule. Connecting passengers report that the travel map has been designed to minimize time spent at airports with connecting flights.
