LOT received the eight Dreamliner

The fleet of LOT was joined by the eighth wide-body plane, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. The new machine will allow the Polish carrier to increase the frequency of flights to Seoul and Tokyo. Starting in August, it will also serve regular flights from Warsaw to Newark, and in the near future will allow for launching the next new destinations. This is not the end of the growth of the LOT fleet. Next year, deliveries of larger Dreamliners – 787-9 – will start. .

The delivery of the eighth Dreamliner for LOT, with SP-LRH registration, finalizes the order submitted by the Polish carrier in 2005. The first Dreamliner (SP-LRA) arrived at LOT in November 2012. At that time, the Polish carrier was the first airline in Europe flying this type of plane. It was thanks to Boeing 787 that since 2016 LOT has started an intensive development of long-haul connections to Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles, Newark, as well as flights from Kraków to Chicago.

The eighth Dreamliner in the LOT fleet will mainly contribute to an increase of the flight frequency along Asian routes. Starting in July, LOT will fly not 3 but 5 times a week to Seoul. The frequency of flights to Tokyo will increase from 3 to 4 flights per week. Starting in August, Dreamliner will also commence regular flights from Warsaw to Newark, which will be operated 5 times a week, in this way replacing Boeing 767-300 leased for three months from the EuroAtlantic airline.

New Dreamliners 787-8 are not the last planes to be acquired by LOT in the nearest future. This month, deliveries of 4 Boeing 737-800 NG planes were completed, and in November, LOT will be one of the first airlines in the world to receive narrow-body planes of the latest generation straight from the Boeing plant – 737 MAX 8.

Meanwhile, starting in April next year, deliveries of larger Dreamliners – 787-9 – will start. In total, LOT ordered 4 machines of this type.

The development of the fleet is an element of the profitable growth strategy implemented by LOT, according to which, by 2020, LOT wishes to double its number of passengers, number of flights, and number of planes in its possession, thus becoming the largest carrier in Central and Eastern Europe.