Vienna to Istanbul via Tokyo: LOT Business Class Warsaw to Chicago

It's foodie 😉

@ David -- Like I said, I'm not one! :p

So, of this trip, what was the best hard product you flew?

@ Brett -- I'd have to say the Austrian/Brussels product was the best.

Vanilla creme and raspberry jam? In other words, they put whipped cream on jelly… That's not dessert, that's what I eat when I haven't been grocery shopping in two weeks.

@ Scottrick -- ROFL!

Well at least you survived. I'm not planning to fly LOT until they're bought up by Turkish Airlines or some other company that will revamp them but thanks for letting me know what I'm missing 😀

That looks a lot like port in a shot glass, not "shots in a port glass". 🙂

@ Ethan -- Whoops, thanks!

I like how you spread out the trip reports a day or so at a time but now I realize why this trip seemed so long. You started describing it on Feb. 18, three snow storms ago for many of us! 😉 Thanks for the distraction from real life.

I was so hoping you chose the Ratatouille - "better than in the film"! hee!

I don't speak Polish but them writing dinner instead of lunch is probably just a direct translation. Where I come from the word "dinner" is used for what Americans call "lunch", and "supper" is "dinner".

Another example of this kind is how Americans (and some others) use the word "entree" for the main course, which of course is completely wrong 🙂

Did you at least get to keep the shot glass??

Is it just me, or do the seats look like they're made from recycled blue Dockers?

That's surprisingly not an awful Chablis that they serve. Be pleased a light bulb didn't need changing during the flight.

-JRL

@ Mark -- Shoot, I should've pocketed one.

@ Food Wine and Miles -- ROFL! I was thinking exactly the same thing.

I wonder what the "other goodies" are that are stuffed into the chicken? I probably would have ordered it just to find out.

But the best part we're the gift cards at the end of the flight. I would have been very happy to get those.

They have exactly the same seats as TAM on their international fleet.
Very uncomfortable for long haul flights.

So LOT doesn't give out Amenity Kit's?

@ Justin P -- Totally forgot about that! Adding pictures of the amenity kit to the report now.

That old 767 has the original overhead bins. Most of the carriers have replaced these with the new 777 style bins.

OMG, i guess i'm kind happy I cancelled my trip where I would've been stuck on LO to JFK. Instead i'm doing SQ, UA, SN and LX 🙂

I kept thinking the plane looks just like the 762s AA runs from SFO to JFK, which are in pretty shabby condition as well. At least on AA they have ice cream sundaes in J, right?

Great trip report as always!

Wow, those LOT headphones look really, "classic". Why do they give those out given that it looks like the digital player comes with its own headphones?

Wow, even the trip reports now have affiliate links?

This whole "if you don't like them, skip over it" thing is becoming really hard to do.

What happened over the past few weeks that now every single post has affiliate links? Quotas? Reduced commissions? The change in your blog is mightily noticeable.

you've turned into such a lush since when i first started reading this blog. out goes the d.c.w.l in the straight vodka shots.

i love it.

Speaking of typos - three seats of two seats?

actually the amenity kit looks better than austrian...

That's a sweet looking comb you scored!

Sadly, LOT may not be around to fly the 787s. A recent WSJ article suggests they are really hemoraghing and were looking for the 787 to be the salvation. If that doesn't occur soon, LOT will loose a LOT and its days maybe numbered.

Lucky, are you psyched to fly LOT's 787 for the plane itself, or for the seat? The seat looks like a less stylish, cheaper quality material version of what Turkish offers...

Wow, great report. I always liked travel reports because it is better than other experimental reports.Thanks for such a post. I will keep visiting your site once a week. 🙂

@Rob, since you are dissatisfied, you should ask for your subscription fee back.

Even PBS has telethons....otherwise, what you get is Pay Per View.

@blueline

I'm well aware Lucky has been essentially running a telethon for the past few weeks now. My question was what caused it.... he never used to heavily pimp CC affiliate links. Now we can't even avoid them in trip reports.

Top off US Airways account with SPG card, really? 5000 dollars of spending for 35,000 US Airways points seems like a total waste but that's just me.

Aside from that I liked the article.

It's bad on a star alliance carrier when you say "i'd rather have flown United".

Still better than my experience on LOT twenty years ago. I was in an aisle seat and after we'd reached cruising altitude, the fellow across the aisle lit an acrid cigarette. I called the flight attendant over and, wi my best puzzled expression, pointed to the "No Smoking" sign on the tray table in front of my seat. She nodded. I pointed to the gentleman. She nodded again.

"Yes," she said. "You are not smoking. He is smoking."

It turns out that on Polish Airways back then -- I am not making this up -- the right half of the plane was smoking, and the left was non-smoking. It was like something from a vaudevillian's book of Polish jokes.