LOT Polish Airlines (LO / LOT)

LOT la OTP:

ERJ-170 / SP-LDC - este logojet-ul Star Alliance al LOT.
O poza din lateral ar fi fost mult mai potrivita insa, din pacate, am fost sub aeronava...

Clasicul lor avion pt distante scurte e EMB145.

SP-LDD

Titlu: LOT plans third quarter 2011 privatisation
Sursa: flightglobal
Autor: Brendan Sobie
Data: 18.10.2010

Citat :

Polish flag carrier LOT has decided to pursue privatisation next year and has hired an advisor to help it decide on whether to go for a public offering or sell to a strategic partner.

LOT CIO Tomasz Kochan says "the decision has already been made" to privatise and the carrier's new management team is now aiming to complete a sale in the third quarter of 2011. He says LOT recently selected JP Morgan as its advisor for the privatisation process.

Kochan says LOT has not yet decided to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) or to sell to another airline. Lufthansa CEO designate Christoph Franz recently said the German carrier would look into buying LOT but a Lufthansa spokesman played down the comments, saying it would naturally pay attention to the privatisation process at LOT but has not yet made any formal decision to participate. Lufthansa and LOT are both members of the Star Alliance.

LOT has long been a target of privatisation by the Polish Government but has struggled to achieve financial and management stability. In late September, LOT appointed new CEOs and CFOs, marking its seventh CEO change in only five years.

The Polish Government has a 68% share in LOT while a regional economic fund holds 25%. The remainder is owned by staff.

Kochan says LOT now has the financial stability to pursue privatisation. After incurring large losses in 2008 and 2009, Kochan says LOT is now on path to roughly break even in 2010.

"The plan was to show black figures this year but unfortunately the ash cloud from the volcano grounded us for six days," Kochan told Flightglobal after speaking at the 15 October Amadeus Horizons 2010 conference in San Francisco.

Kochan has overseen an IT transformation at LOT, which also helps position the carrier for privatisation. The transformation has already resulted in implementing several new systems from Amadeus, including a new inventory system. Kochan says a new revenue accounting system from Kale Consultants will be implemented next year and LOT recently issued a request for information for a new MRO system, which will be the last of its legacy systems to be replaced.

Kochan says LOT has doubled its annual IT investment from 2008 to 2009 to support the IT transformation and the carrier is also now looking at investing in ancillary service solutions to facilitate plans to introduce more ancillary streams. Kochan says LOT's ancillary business is now "very small" but needs to grow as the carrier faces stiff competition against low-cost carrier's across its short-haul network.

LOT also has a small long-haul network operated with six widebody aircraft. Kochan says LOT still expects to begin replacing its widebody fleet in November 2011, when the first of eight new 787s is now slated for delivery.

LOT a primit primul E-195, inregistrat SP-LNA, direct din Brazilia. Primul zbor programat este Varsovia-Bruxelles pe 15 aprilie. Incepand din 7 septembrie, se pare ca va veni si la Otopeni, conform AirlineRoute.

Polonia vrea sa privatizeze LOT intr'un an de acum incolo.

Anul trecut au mai incercat sa faca privatizarea, dar din cauza unor greseli de organizare nu s-a realizat, insa anul acesta ei zic cum ca au intrat pe fagasul cel bun. Printre posibilii cumparatori (care s-au anuntat interesati data trecuta) erau : Air France – KLM, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa si Air China.

Sursa info

Nou livery LOT. Sursa Airliners.net.








Oversized logo pe coada e la moda (a se vedea ROT). Imi plac culorile poloneze de pe coada, mult mai vizibile decat erau inainte.

Stiu ca LOT a adoptat prima data livery-ul, inaintea ROT, dar totusi cel nou e cam 80%Tarom, nu vi se pare?

Newest special color scheme promoting Poland isn't really breathtaking:



BRGDS TK

SP-LNB
Embraer ERJ-190-200LR 195LR

http://spotterpoint.org/air_imagen/5866/

TITLU: Siberia opens airspace for LOT airlines
SURSA:http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/58606,Siberia-opens-airspace-for-LOT-airlines
DATA: 16.11.2011

Citat :

Poland’s national carrier, LOT Polish Airlines has been given the go-ahead by Russian authorities to fly over Siberia, with more Asian destinations planned for 2012 as a result.
The announcement came as Marcin Pirog, the Chariman of LOT told Polish Radio, Wednesday morning, that the airline’s losses for 2011 will be less by some 300 million zloty (68 million euro), “not taking into account the price of oil and currency exchange rates.”
Pirog stated the airline plans to make a profit in 2012, hinting that privatisation would be a good move for the company.
“[This] would allow for certain changes quickly and efficiently,” Pirog said, adding that “it will be easier to gain access to capital.”
Meanwhile, the opening up of Siberian airspace has meant that LOT is planning to open routes when the airline takes delivery of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners next year.
Apart from opening a route to Beijing in first half of 2012, “we are thinking about Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, and Delhi,” LOT’s Marcin Pirog said.
LOT is expecting to exchange its fleet of 767s – one of which had an emergency landing in Warsaw on 1 November – with eight 787s by 2015.

S-a fixat startul zborurilor de la WAW la PEK de la 29 mai 2012. Zborurile vor fi operate cu B 767. Sursa: https://www.lot.com/

Linia e pasibil sa fie exploatata cu 787 in toamna lui 2012

Sursa aici cu pret promotional pentru Paris - Beijing

EUROLOT IS TO RENEW ITS FLEET WITH BOMBARDIER Q400 NEXTGEN

Eurolot SA General Meeting of Shareholders has approved a choice of the new fleet made previously by Eurolot SA Management and Supervisory Boards. Eurolot is intending to successively exchange its aircraft onto Canadian Bombardier Q400 NextGen in the first half of 2012.

The first new aircraft shall show up on Eurolot routes as early as in May this year. Within summer season Eurolot will get 8 aircraft Bombardier Q400 NextGen. The airline has also the additional option on purchase of another 6 aircraft of this type.


E de vazut daca vor face replacement E170-175 cu Q400 pe Romania. Oricum, e logic goodbyeul pt ATR.

Turkish Airlines a renuntat la ideea de a cumpara LOT.

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Eurolot si-a extins orderul de Q400 cu inca 6 bucati. Trecerea de la ATR e din ce in ce mai clara.

LOT va zbura primul 787 pe mai multe destinatii europene incepand cu 14 decembrie in cadrul "Dream Tour". Confirmate sunt PRG, FRA, MUC, LHR, VIE, BRU, KBP. Asteptam si OTP.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5562652/

S-a livrat primul Boeing 787-85D Dreamliner a celor de la LOT

LINK cu zborul

si deja apar poze de la aterizare in Polonia



Frumos boenig ul

LOT trece de la 13/7 la 20/7 pe OTP

http://www.capital.ro/lot-polish-airlines-isi-suplimenteaza-numarul-de-zboruri-pe-ruta-varsovia-bucuresti-la-trei-pe-zi.html

SP-LIE is a new retrojet of LOT. At this moment it is planned for a flight LO641 to OTP tomorrow (05th Apr).

Happy spotting!

TK

Unfortunately the weather it will be very bad tmorrow

OTP, April 5th. Unfortunately the wind was very strong and I stayed in the car waiting for SP-LIE and it arrived 15 minutes earlier than scheduled and I didn't have time to make a photo from the front. It didn't appeared on flightradar24

EPWA 05APR2014

Got it upon arrival from OTP:



BRGDS TK