Fabo.sk

I am, but I think we already messaged about that.

yurtripper

Possibly nothing if you're comparing it to a plain 738 and you realise that airlines have densified the seating configuration, to make it seem more like a 737 MIN to pax.

But this is a route that's normally served by the DH4 workhorse ("we need to tag your bag, as it's too big to fit!"). Not quite like getting the Dreamliner for TLL or BUD, but I'll take it for now

milepig

I do this fairly frequently, but always check fares first as you never know. I actually like LO J and almost always have the seat next to me empty.

I'm flying ORD/FRA in October, and for my dates UA/LH wanted over 10K for J, and LO ORD-KRK-FRA-WAW-ORD was $2,800. The KRK flight gives me an early evening ORD departure adn 2pm arrival at FRA. Much better than the 11pm WAW flight. The only complaint I have is that the lounge used in ORD reminds me of a funeral home. The SAS lounge is slightly better, but not by much.

AlicorporateUK

FYI - We are indeed [on the same flight] - and I feel already sorry for the fellow passenger who will end up sitting on 2E and will have to bear with your-good-self & G (2F) chatting for the entire flight (unless my *G will trigger the blocked seat, as I understand you will be using FTL for this trip ). That said, fingers crossed for my connection - I am booked on the first morning flight to Vienna out of Sarajevo connecting to LO224 (30 minutes' layover, but the first morning flight is usually on-time during summer), meaning that I should be in the lounge just before 11AM

G

yurtripper

But I thought you were coming with +1 or +2, so where are they sitting? Or have you exiled them to the back?

I think you'll make it. The reliability vs time-of-day is almost a perfect linear decay. And if push comes to shove, I'll tell the gate agents that we're awaiting a VVIP!

AlicorporateUK

The other half will be in Gdańsk from the Friday (visiting family... and cat), she'll join us in Garnizon; the +2 is slightly put off by the via Vienna/Warsaw thingy (she thought she would have only had to bear with 1 stop, not really a FTer, is she ) and hating the idea of having to do exactly the same thing the following day, but I think I'll be able to convince her (bottle of rakija this coming Friday should do)

Fingers crossed, I would hate to miss the welcome drink/preludium at the Polonez

P.S.: whilst I never really bother to update the lounge meetings' thread (as odd as it sounds and because of the boring weekly routine with basically the same flights every bloomin' week, I tend to go to the airport last-minute-dot-com and often not even bother with the lounge), I will however be making a same-day-return trip to London this coming Thursday (first morning flight to LHR, back on LO280 at 6:10PM and with plenty of time to spare at one of the LHR T2's lounges from 2:45ish, possibly even earlier as I will only have one meeting in London) and I will then head to Sarajevo via Zagreb the following day (Friday 29th, LO613 at 4:50PM then long layover in ZAG) so, if anyone is around (at either LHR, WAW or even ZAG), I'd be more than happy to meet-up/guest

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Lack

Not sure how Marriott nights work out for your qualification, but the Courtyard in Gdynia shows 371 PLN for the night. Would be even better if we met up @Browar Port, but it's still a nice place to recover after ;-).

Try the Polaris lounge if you can get through security. There's a shuttle to the international terminal untill 8PM

milepig

Sadly, not from T1. The shuttle only runs from T2 and T3.

Lack

I know it's a bit of trek, but the T1-2-3 are connected airside so it's entirely possible to do it (verified myself).

milepig

I know, but with a 5:30pm Sunday departure, the desire to spend part of the day at home, the general messiness of LO ground operations at ORD, the hike all the way to Concourse C followed by a shlep to T5 just doesn't seem worth it in this case. I'm in Polaris from time to time anyway, so it isn't like a once in a lifetime event.

A little research turns up that LO also gives access to the Air France/KLM lounge, so that makes 4 T5 options - Swissport, Swiss, SAS (recently renovated) and Air France/KLM. Maybe I'll do a little lounge hopping.

Fabo.sk

I'll show her my itinerary, she'll understand very fast she got off light.

AlicorporateUK

Bargain - and that's a truly nice property with outstanding staff. Amazing when you think that the Novotel down Jelitkowo (Marina, incidentally that's where LOT crews normally stay at) has more-or-less the same rates on average (if not more expensive, I've just double checked the weekend in question) and that's a decrepit property in urgent need of revamping.

G

AlicorporateUK

Judging from the lounge meetings' thread, you have indeed quite an odyssey ahead and that's probably an understatement

G

Fabo.sk

It's 11 legs on M&M airlines in 5 days, and I haven't even gotten in as much as I'd have liked (GDN-WAW on Saturday evening would have been nice. As it is, I'll have to give Polskie Koleje Panstwowe a try.)

AlicorporateUK

The so-called TLK train (no EIP/EIC running at night as it seems) Blimey, I've just checked and it only takes just less than 4 hours, not bad at all (I remember it used to take much longer than that as the train stopped literally everywhere). Will you head straight to WAW and to the lounge once you get off the train at Zachodnia in the morning?

P.S.: if we stay around Garnizon, I'll make sure to take you to the nearest train station, which is Wrzeszcz and it's just around the corner (your train will definitely stop there as well).

G