Lot eyes leisure sales with new daily operation

Gatwick-warsaw service

Lot eyes leisure sales with new daily operation

Report by LOUISE LONGMAN

LOT Polish Airlines is launching a daily service between Gatwick and Warsaw in a bid to offer holidaymakers a complete leisure package from the UK to Poland.

From October 30, a B737 LOT aircraft will leave Warsaw at 12.50pm arriving in Gatwick at 2.30pm. The outbound flight will leave Gatwick at 3.30pm and arrive in Warsaw at 6.55pm.

The Gatwick-Warsaw route will raise LOT’s weekly flights between Poland and the UK to 58, with flights departing from Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester.

Existing LOT routes to Poland include Gatwick flights to Cracow and Gdansk.

The airline is also looking to appeal to the city-break traveller by offering triangular flight arrangements, enabling passengers to take outbound flights from Gatwick to Warsaw and return flights from Cracow to Gatwick.

LOT Polish Airlines regional director UK and Ireland Waldemar Machalowski said: “The addition of the third Gatwick route ensures LOT is able to offer a complete leisure programme.”

Waldemar said the routes will appeal to independent travellers as well as operators looking to boost sales in Poland.

He said: “Tour operators can build dual, or tri-city break offers, and independent travellers will be able to take advantage of the wide range of destinations. It has always been LOT’s goal to provide as complete a service as possible between the UK and Poland – this latest development is a major step forward.”

LOT Polish Airlines is part of the Qualiflyer alliance and codeshares routes with British Airways on the UK-Poland market and Amercian Airlines on the US market.

Flight bonus: marking the new service, from left, are Matgorzata Rokicka and Magdalena Czarnick, LOTflight attendants and Krysztof Rytte, LOT airport manager, Gatwick