LOT Polish Airlines will be introducing all new cabins on its Boeing 787s, and that’s super exciting. This is only one of the announcements the airline made this week, as LOT also plans to expand its fleet by 50%, and plans to open a lounge in Chicago.
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In the last paragraph under the title Bottom line you wrote "The only bad news is that this work will only start in the second half of 2023 (three years from now)".
... Did you mean 2026? three years from now will be 2026.
"RECARO Aircraft Seating as the exclusive seat supplier for our widebody fleet" suggests to me that the others will be retrofitted, although that is certainly ambiguous and could easily be overeager marketing sleight-of-hand.
As lovely as the finish is, I hope the airline industry would adopt more of the ANA/JAL new product announcement timeline, and less of the Lufthansa style announcement.
They apparently have 8 787-8 planes and 7 787-9 planes so I'm guessing this is the -8 product and they haven't decided what to do yet with the -9 planes?
Yesterday LOT announced whole new strategy for 2024-2028, incl adding up to 40 new airplanes, 530 pilots, 1100 cabin crew and 20 new destinations LOT wants to fly to ( not confirmed, just a wish list, incl SFO, IAD, BOS, YUL, KIX, PVG, CAN, HAN, BKK, SIN, IKA, RUH, AUH and plenty of European ones).
As for 787s, first the oldest, -8s will get new cabins. -9s are much newer, with newer IFE, so they will have to wait. However, LOT announced they will need another 5-6 long haul airplanes ( rumors say maybe 787-10), and they will come with a new cabins too.
RECARO will also provide new seats for present LOT Fleet.
They DO have 8 787-8s and 7 787-9s, not apparently. And since -8s are older, with older cabins and IFE, they will be retrofitted first.
That Economy Class looks more like Cattle Class. FO: 'Sir, we're breaking up'. CAPT: 'Livestock, I mean people. Duck and cover!. 'Biz class passengers will find a parachute under your seat'. What ever happened to that Polish mission to the sun? they planned to go at night so they wouldn't burn up, but I never heard any results.
the Business seat looks tiny and extremely uncomfortable. Isn't an announcement three years ahead of new seating ... unusual?
Isn't LOT about to be sold off to another another European Airline group or investor? I thought they were "next up" after SAS and TAP? Star Alliance must be shaking in their boots!
As others have mentioned, it would be a lot better (pun intended, sorry) if they announced the new cabins shortly before installing them, not 3 years before. I think they wanna copy their Star Alliance partner in announcing new cabins a few years early in order to get a 5-star rating.
That being said, it’s nice to hear that 1-2-1 Business Class coming to LOT, and those cabins look a heck of a lot more modern than what they’re replacing.
Lastly I have to say that the Business Class seat finishes vaguely remind me of SAS’s. Am I alone in thinking in this? Anyway, reminiscent of SAS or not, that’s a really good-looking forward cabin!
I don’t think the retrofit is restricted to the 787-8s just because they are older. Most or all are owned by LOT while the 787-9s are leased and this may have something to do with this.
Being newer does not seem like a compelling reason to not upgrade a completely non competitive cabin.
The only cabin wide difference in the hard product is that the -9s have a slightly larger IFE screen and the inner side of the seats have a net that restricts items from falling into the seat. Other than that, row 1 has bulkhead mounted IFE monitors instead of the armrest monitors on fold away arms on the -8s. That’s it.
Besides, by 2030 the oldest -9s will be over 10 years old, so not exactly too new to upgrade.
Funny that Polish state/PiS-oligarch/-kleptocrats controlled LOT is going with Recaro, a German seat manufacturer.
Not exactly what you'd expect after the last years of German-bashing and embargos on German suppliers coming from PiS.
Business class has USB-A plugs whereas PE and Y have USB-C?! That must be a mistake. No one will still own a USB A cable in 2030
I hope the seats in Premium Economy will, in their upright position, be perpendicular to the floor and not lean back as they do now. VERY VERY difficult to get out of the seats even in Premium Economy. Further, that console thing, in which the tray tables and the monitors, projects too far forward, also making it VERY VERY difficult to leave or enter a middle seat or a seat by the window. Flew back yesterday from Warsaw and the current configuration is ridiculous and very uncomfortable, not worthy of "premium economy".
Bro, your pop-up ads are so intrusive, it just makes the user experience frustrating and not worth trying to read your blog anymore.
Is there any news on how soon in 2026 they will begin delivering the new experience? Looking for summer 2026 from LAX and evaluating between carriers now
it is horrible business to wait three years for half your planes i wont continue to fly