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Polish Airlines: Feedback

When there is a journey through the air, a person willy-nilly thinks about what airline to fly with. After all, on such a trip safety is important. Also I want to travel with comfort. If you have a flight with transfers, it is advisable to spend less time at transit airports. The future passenger wants to know about the permissible weight of luggage and hand luggage, about when the registration is opened and whether it is possible to check-in on the Internet. Therefore, the interest in the shipping companies is quite understandable.

So, the focus of this article was today "Polish Airlines". The full name of the company sounds like LOT Polish Airlines. What does the client expect from this company? What is her air park? What services does the carrier have on board? Does he have any bonus programs? All this we will tell you below. Information about the "Polish Airlines" we drew mainly from the reviews of travelers.

History and modernity

"Polish Airlines" are present in the market of passenger air transport for already eighty-seven years! A venerable time to start trusting the company! It was founded in 1929. But its first flight the company carried out in April 1930, when the plane, which started from Warsaw, landed successfully in Bucharest. Since then, the company has relentlessly replenished and updated its air fleet, expanded the map of directions.

The motto of "LOT" 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: Warsaw, Zhvirki and Vigury Street, 1. The basic hubs are the Moscow hub. Frederic Chopin and the air harbor of Krakow.

Aircraft fleet

The airline can boast of one of the youngest air fleets in the world. There are fifty-one cars in the park. Only new and modern airliners, on the assurances of passengers, are served to the "Polish Airlines" gangway. Photos of snow-white handsome men with a blue line on the board and the LOT logo in front and on the tail often reinforce the laudatory reviews of travelers.

For transatlantic flights, the company has six Boeing 767s with a wide fuselage. The sky over Europe is plied by nine jet airliners of the type Boeing 737 (400 and 800 modifications), Boeing 787-8 and ten Embraers 170. Regional flights make thirteen turboprop ATP modifications 42-500 and 72. Also between the Polish cities there is a message on 13 comfortable Embraeras versions 13 and 145. In total there are seven types of aircraft in the company park. The average age of these liners is eight years.

Directions

Directly, "Polish Airlines LOT" fly to forty-nine airports in 31 states. But due to membership in the Star Alliance and code-sharing contracts, the travel card of the company's clients is expanding significantly. Its passengers are available seven hundred air harbors in 128 countries. And, as the reviews say, the company strives to make waiting in transit airports to be kept to a minimum.

Liners "LOT" deliver passengers from Poland to Greece (Athens, Larnaca), to Amsterdam and Brussels, Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), France (Lyon, Nice, Paris), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt Mayne), Switzerland (Zurich and Geneva), Italy (Venice, Milan, Rome), Great Britain (London and Manchester). The airline makes transatlantic flights to Chicago, New York, Toronto. On its liners you can get to the Middle East - Beirut, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, as well as to the countries of Scandinavia.

Flights to neighbors

In fact, all the skies of Central Europe have routed the routes of "Polish Airlines". You can reach them with Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia. A huge number of flights to Ukraine, which makes "LOT" ("Polish Airlines"): to Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, Kharkov. Immediately after the introduction of the visa-free regime for this country, the company's management stated that it will increase the number of existing flights. In addition, new directions will open: to the Dnieper, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and Rivne. In Lviv from Warsaw, there will be three flights a day (instead of two). With Russia, a message has been established with Moscow (Sheremetyevo), Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. The liners of the company deliver passengers to Minsk, the capital of the Baltic republics and even to distant Astana.

Regional Flights Map

The firm has tried itself and as loukosterov. She founded a subsidiary of the Center-Wings. However, it did not justify the hopes placed on it and was eliminated in 2009. However, the company has a second "daughter". It is called "Eurolot". With it, "Polish Airlines" operates flights between the cities of Poland.

We have already mentioned that the company is based in Warsaw and Krakow. But the geography of domestic flights is much broader. Liners with a blue ribbon on their sides fly to Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, Zielona Guruj and Gdansk, Lodz and Katowice, Rzeszow, Poznan and Szczecin. The reviews report that for such travels comfortable "Bombardiers" of the modification of Q Dash 400 are also used. The map of directions would be continuously expanded if it was economically justified. But what about the long flights the situation is different. The company's management is considering the development of Asia. Soon, a message will be established between Warsaw and Tokyo, Poland and South Korea.

Services in the air "LOT Polish Airlines"

Wherever you fly with LOT - domestic flights or abroad, you will always be surrounded by the highest comfort. So at least they give feedback. Kind guides will meet you at the gangway, will help to place luggage on the shelves for hand luggage. Soon after take-off, drinks are served. This is in case the flight is short-lived. If it lasts more than two hours, you will be provided with adequate nutrition.

The delay of the aircraft (and, moreover, the cancellation of the flight) of the company "Polish Airlines" is an extraordinary event. Particularly much praise for passengers is wasted by convenient LOT salons. Armchairs are wide, with a reclining back. 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 the level of service is higher, but the distance between the rows of seats is greater. Also, reviews report the courtesy and helpfulness of flight attendants. During the flight, they take care of the comfort and safety of passengers.

Baggage

Many travelers are interested in the question of the gravity of the suitcase, so that it would not be necessary to pay extra for the preponderance. In this regard, the company "LOT Polish Airlines" has clear rules.

On flights to Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, China, USA and Canada, a business class passenger can take three pieces of baggage at 32 kilograms each. On liners, performing transatlantic flights, there is also a compartment for premium class in the cabin. Its passengers have the right to hand over two pieces of baggage of 23 kilograms. And the rest can only hand over 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 hand over two units of 32 kilograms to their luggage, and premium customers-the same number of things, but already 23 kilograms.

Flights to Poland are carried out on liners that do not have division into compartments. All domestic passengers can take one suitcase weighing up to 23 kg. Hand luggage, according to the rules of the airline, is a single bag or a portfolio of up to eight kilograms. For extra baggage or excess weight, a fee of forty euros is charged.