It seems to be like one other Star Alliance airline will quickly be including service to the Bay Space.
LOT Polish Launching San Francisco Flights
It’s being reported that LOT Polish will likely be launching 4x weekly flights between Warsaw and San Francisco as of August 5, 2020.
The flight will function with the next schedule on Mondays and Fridays:
LO35 Warsaw to San Francisco departing 11:35AM arriving 2:30PM
LO36 San Francisco to Warsaw departing four:25PM arriving 1:00PM (+1 day)
Then on Wednesdays and Saturdays the flight will function with the next schedule:
LO35 Warsaw to San Francisco departing 5:20PM arriving Eight:15PM
LO36 San Francisco to Warsaw departing 10:10PM arriving 6:45PM (+1 day)
Clearly the schedule is predicated on plane availability, on condition that a lot of LOT’s routes aren’t operated every day.
The roughly 5,870 mile flight is blocked at 11hr55min westbound and 11hr35min eastbound.
LOT Polish’s lengthy haul fleet consists solely of 787s (each the -Eight and -9 variants), in order that aircraft will likely be used for the route. LOT Polish’s Dreamliners all have totally flat enterprise class seats in a 2-2-2 configuration.
LOT Polish 787 enterprise class
LOT Polish 787 enterprise class
The timing of this announcement isn’t a coincidence, because it comes simply shortly after a visa waiver program was introduced between Poland and the US.
How This Matches Into LOT’s Routemap
San Francisco will likely be LOT Polish’s sixth US vacation spot, along with Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Newark. Whereas the airline flies to all of those locations out of Warsaw, additionally they function another attention-grabbing flights to the US (a few of that are seasonal):
The airline flies from Krakow to Chicago, and as of Could 2020 will fly from Krakow to New York
The airline flies from Budapest to New York and Chicago
The airline flies from Rzeszów to Newark
It’s fairly unbelievable to see how the airline has grown, particularly on condition that their fleet has been closely impacted by the 787’s engine points.
The August launch date for a brand new transatlantic route appears odd, because it’s the top of the height summer season journey interval, although my guess is that the timing is solely as a result of plane availability. The airline nonetheless has three 787-9s on order, and I think about supply of these will permit this path to occur.
Backside Line
It’s superior to see one more Star Alliance airline launch flights to San Francisco. This may tie in properly to United’s route community, particularly for these touring to Japanese Europe.
LOT actually is doing a formidable job with their progress given their pretty restricted lengthy haul fleet, and likewise on condition that they’re robust with routes to each North America and Asia.
What do you make of LOT Polish’s new flight to San Francisco?
(Tip of the hat to @TSniedziewski)
