When to travel by air, manperforce thinks about which airline to fly with. Indeed, on such a trip, safety is important. I also want to travel in comfort. If you have to fly with transfers, then it is advisable to spend less time in transit airports. The future passenger wants to know about the allowable weight of baggage and hand luggage, when the registration opens and whether it is possible to check-in via the Internet. Therefore, interest in shipping companies is quite understandable.
So, the focus of this article is today."Polish Airlines". The full name of the company sounds like LOT Polish Airlines. What awaits the customers of this company? What is her air park? What services does the carrier provide on board? Does he have any bonus programs? All this we will tell you below. Information about the "Polish Airlines", we have gathered mainly from the reviews of travelers.
Polish Airlines is present on the marketPassenger air transport is already eighty-seven years old! A respectable time to start trusting the company! It was founded in 1929. But the company made its first flight in April 1930, when the plane, launched from Warsaw, successfully landed in Bucharest. Since then, the company has tirelessly replenished and updated its air fleet, expanded the direction map.
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 prestigious Star Alliance. The company's headquarters is located at: Warsaw, ,virki and Wigury Street, 1. Base airports are the capital hub. Frédéric Chopin and the Kraków Air Harbor.
The airline boasts one of the mostthe youngest air fleets in the world. There are fifty-one cars in the park. Only new and modern liners, according to the assurances of passengers, served to the ladder "Polish Airlines". Photos of snow-white beauties with a blue line on board and a LOT logo in the front and on the tail are often reinforced by laudatory reviews of travelers.
For transatlantic flights with the companyThere are six "Boeing 767" with a wide fuselage. Nine Boeing 737 jet planes (modifications 400 and 800), Boeing 787-8 and ten Embraers 170 plow the sky over Europe. Thirteen turboprop ATP modifications 42-500 and 72 make regional flights. Also, there was a connection between 13 comfortable Embraer versions 13 and 145 between Polish cities. In total, the company has seven types of aircraft. The average age of these liners is eight years.
Directly "Polish Airlines LOT"fly to forty-nine airports in 31 states. But because of the membership in the Star Alliance and the code-sharing agreements, the travel card of the company's clients is expanding significantly. Seven hundred air ports in 128 countries of the world are available to its passengers. Moreover, as the reviews claim, the company strives to ensure that the expectation at transit airports is kept to a minimum.
LOT liners deliver passengers from Poland toGreece (Athens, Larnaca), to 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 makes transatlantic flights to Chicago, New York, Toronto. On its ships you can get to the Middle East - to Beirut, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, as well as to the countries of Scandinavia.
Virtually the whole sky of Central EuropeThe routes of Polish Airlines were fouled. With them you can get to Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia. A huge number of flights to Ukraine, which makes the "LOT" ("Polish Airlines"): in Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, 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: in the Dnieper, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and Rivne. There will be three flights to Lviv from Warsaw every day (instead of two). Russia has established communication with Moscow (Sheremetyevo), Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. The company's liners deliver passengers to Minsk, the capital of the Baltic republics and even to distant Astana.
The company also tried itself as a low-cost airline.She founded a subsidiary of Centre-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 "Euroolot". With her help, Polish Airlines operates flights between Polish cities.
We have already mentioned that the company is based inWarsaw and Krakow. But the geography of domestic flights is much wider. Blue ribbon liners on their sides fly to Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, Zielona Guru and Gdańsk, Lodz and Katowice, Rzeszów, Poznań and Szczecin. Testimonials say that comfortable “Bombardiers” of the Q Dash 400 version are also used for such trips. The map of directions would have been constantly expanding if it were economically justified. But about long-distance flights, the situation is different. The company management is thinking about mastering Asia. Communication between Warsaw and Tokyo, Poland and South Korea will be established soon.
Wherever you fly with LOT - domestic flightsor abroad, you will always be surrounded by the highest comfort. So at least report reviews. Kind conductors will meet you at the ramp, help you to place luggage on the shelves for hand luggage. Shortly after takeoff, drinks are served. This is in case the flight is short. If it lasts more than two hours, you will be provided with good nutrition.
The delay of the aircraft (and especially the cancellation of the flight)Polish Airlines is an extraordinary event. Especially a lot of praise passengers squander a comfortable cabin liners "LOT". Chairs are wide, with a reclining back. The passage between them is quite wide. All salons have a division into general and business class. The latter is located in front of the liner. In business class, not only is the level of service higher, but the distance between the rows of seats is greater. Also reviews report on the courtesy and courtesy of flight attendants. During the flight, they care about the comfort and safety of passengers.
Many travelers are interested in the question ofwhat weight should be a suitcase, so as not to have to pay extra for the advantage. LOT Polish Airlines has clear rules about this.
On flights to Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, PRC,A business class passenger in the USA and Canada can take three pieces of baggage, 32 kilograms each. On the liners that make transatlantic flights, the cabin also has a compartment for the premium class. Its passengers have the right to hand over two pieces of baggage, 23 kilograms each. And others can take only one suitcase or bag with a total weight of 23 kg. On international flights (these include flights to the Middle East and North Africa) business class passengers hand in two pieces of 32 kilograms per baggage, and premium customers have the same number of items, but already 23 kg.
Flights in Poland are carried out on liners, nothaving divisions into compartments. All passengers on domestic flights can take one suitcase weighing up to 23 kg. Hand luggage, according to the rules of the airline, is a single bag or briefcase up to eight kilograms. Extra baggage or excess weight is charged at forty euros.
In general, passengers were satisfied with theirtravel aboard the "LOT". Liners are very comfortable, with good sound insulation. There are several toilets on board, so there are no queues. When planting give the press. Flight attendants are very friendly and helpful. But they harshly suppress any hooligan behavior of passengers on board. Flights depart strictly on schedule. Passengers flying with transfers, reported that the travel map was designed in such a way as to spend as little time as possible at the airports connecting flights.
