The LOT Kafeteria 2018-23 (retired)
Jan 16, 2020, 11:19 am
#1021
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LOT wants to buy Condor [article in Polish]
Jan 16, 2020, 3:20 pm
#1022
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Why don’t they buy BArb?! A Babcia could run BArb and turn a profit with her LHR monopoly, so I don’t see why LOT couldn’t. Just do a lovely leveraged takeover. It worked for Ferrovial.
Jan 17, 2020, 1:17 am
#1023
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It makes perfect sense from a PL perspective as it allows the government to inject cash into the airline to keep it alive via airport subsidies. This way they sidestep various restrictions on government ownership. They learned from AY.
Jan 17, 2020, 2:03 am
#1024
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Maybe also from their partner in Regional Jet too!
Jan 17, 2020, 12:14 pm
#1025
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Like LH Group gets no taxpayer cash...
Jan 17, 2020, 2:14 pm
#1026
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I am talking not about getting cash or not, I'm talking about the structure looking really weird: with one handling company being a LOT subsidiary (WRO-LOT), another (LS AS) a PGL subsidiary for example. Same with maintenance companies: LOT AMS directly under PGL, CEES under PLL LOT and LS Technics under LS AS (but shown at first level at pgl.pl, because reasons). 
Jan 17, 2020, 2:19 pm
#1027
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They will be on the fiddle. The Polish Elite have been doing it since the Dawn of Time.
Jan 18, 2020, 3:07 am
#1028
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Jan 19, 2020, 8:24 pm
#1029
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Which 738 has the 2-2 recliner seats in Business?
Do they tend to use it only to places like TSE and how come the cabin exists- do they plan to swap it out for the space saver knee crunchers like Helga’s lovely NEK?
Do they tend to use it only to places like TSE and how come the cabin exists- do they plan to swap it out for the space saver knee crunchers like Helga’s lovely NEK?
Jan 20, 2020, 5:05 am
#1030
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How come the cabin exists? They leased two old 738s previously used by an airline that had this set up and didn't have time to reconfigure them. Don't get used to that, though.
SP-LWF, SP-LWG, both ex-Jet Airways.
SP-LWF, SP-LWG, both ex-Jet Airways.
Last edited by marcoos; Jan 20, 2020 at 5:14 am
Jan 20, 2020, 5:42 am
#1031
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How come the cabin exists? They leased two old 738s previously used by an airline that had this set up and didn't have time to reconfigure them. Don't get used to that, though.
SP-LWF, SP-LWG, both ex-Jet Airways.
SP-LWF, SP-LWG, both ex-Jet Airways.
Jan 20, 2020, 6:04 am
#1032
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No idea how it works booking-wise. I wouldn't expect Y+ pax to be seated in those, though.
Also, I checked both of these planes on FR24 and they seem to be flying all over the continent, so Barcelona and Astana, but also Zurich, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and even Kraków. Some Y pax on the all-Y KRK-WAW probably get very lucky.
Also, I checked both of these planes on FR24 and they seem to be flying all over the continent, so Barcelona and Astana, but also Zurich, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and even Kraków. Some Y pax on the all-Y KRK-WAW probably get very lucky.
Jan 20, 2020, 6:12 am
#1033
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No idea how it works booking-wise. I wouldn't expect Y+ pax to be seated in those, though.
Also, I checked both of these planes on FR24 and they seem to be flying all over the continent, so Barcelona and Astana, but also Zurich, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and even Kraków. Some Y pax on the all-Y KRK-WAW probably get very lucky.
Also, I checked both of these planes on FR24 and they seem to be flying all over the continent, so Barcelona and Astana, but also Zurich, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and even Kraków. Some Y pax on the all-Y KRK-WAW probably get very lucky.
Jan 20, 2020, 7:57 am
#1034
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This was already reported on this forum, but I experienced it for the first time.
New catering on some short-haul flights (i.e. those where a stronger competitor exists): sweet bun, water/tee/coffee/OJ/apple juice, Grzeski. No attempt to sell BOB - just an announcement that if someone wants to purchase something they should ask the F/A.
New catering on some short-haul flights (i.e. those where a stronger competitor exists): sweet bun, water/tee/coffee/OJ/apple juice, Grzeski. No attempt to sell BOB - just an announcement that if someone wants to purchase something they should ask the F/A.
Jan 20, 2020, 8:12 am
#1035
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Ah yes, the "yeast bun pudding" sounds scrumptious.