Awesome, thanks for all the replies. I don't think they will care that much if they miss their return flight to SZZ as there is a flight in the morning they can jump on and it's at the end of a holiday, so whatevs. Glad to hear their outbound connection is relatively safe though, since missing the TATL flight to the US would be more of a bummer at the very start of a holiday. Thanks for all the input!

They live close to Koszalin so they are very familiar with having to travel to BER for flights and make trips there regularly given the lack of connectivity at SZZ. But I found some award space on LOT out of SZZ and it's so much more convenient to fly out of there so it saves a 3 hour drive there and back at the beginning and end of the trip! Funny enough they were amazed that SZZ was even an option to fly out of to connect to an international flight since it is generally only used for flights to Warsaw and Ryanair and Wizzair flights to a handful of destinations. SAS used to have a daily flight to Copenhagen that was useful for connections but unfortunately that went the way of the Dodo when the pandemic started. Northwest Poland is severely under served with flights, it would be great to see LH start flights to SZZ to give much better connectivity options for the region.