LOT Polish will be taking delivery of their first Boeing 787s shortly, and has announced the launch routes. Per airlineroute.net, they will be as follows: Warsaw to Chicago as of January 16, 2013 Warsaw to Toronto as of February 1, 2013 Warsaw to New York JFK as of February 3, 2013 Warsaw to Beijing as…
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@ Brian -- Hey, I sad among! Certainly beats Lufthansa, Austrian, SAS, TAP, etc.
I do like this over the new LH—no playing footsie 😉 and I look forward to using this as another option from YYZ next year for my trip to HEL
Still like the individual seats of US, LX, NZ, etc. But this still looks great.
The bed looks great but the elbow room, cup room, storage room, etc does not look good at all. I would hate to be bumping elbows in long-haul J.
LO service in J is great! So I'm happy the hard product now will be too.
Keep an eye out for great summer Z fare sales. Especially from YYZ. 2.2K CAD for roundtrip J to Poland or Germany + some other destinations.
LO will also have a Y+ product on board. Also essentially the same hardware as TK.
Looks like they quickly erased I availability, yesterday it had a couple open seats on the first ORD-WAW flight, now it's all gone.
Ok, gotta ask... Does UA website display LOT availability? I've never seen any LOT options come up for European routings.
Brussels airlines might be better, but coming from IAD, I pretty much have to do the LGA/JFK shuffle, which doesn't seem worth it. LOT at least serves ORD, which is a much more seamless transfer.
Ben- Same question as Dan. Does United website show LOT award availability? I've never seen it either.
I did redeem an October Euro trip back in February that includes a WAW-ORD operated by LOT. But UA has been changing their systems lately so I wouldn't know.
Nice, I'm booked on a C award on WAW-ORD on Jan 17. Looks like I timed the speculative booking pretty well!
Ok, got bored and work and did some poking around. I looked at inventory using both the ANA tool and UA's website. UA does show LOT flights. The downside is that LOT doesn't release a lot of award inventory. I couldn't find 2 J seats ORD-WAW from Jan 1 - end of schedule. Ouch. There were a smattering of flights between now and the end of the year where 2 J seats were available.
@ Dan -- There's something weird going on, though, as even the GDS doesn't show LOT flights for many dates. I wouldn't be surprised if they're just updating their systems and some routes aren't temporarily displaying.
Easy there, Sparky...until proven differently, Swiss A333 business is the *best* from the US - Europe. Hard + soft product.