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The European airplane manufacturer announced Monday at the Paris Air Show that LOT placed a firm order for 20 A220-100s and 20 A220-300s.

Recently, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny has published details of the Airport Master Plan – a general overview of the mission and vision, traffic forecasts, options and airport development concepts. The authors expect the airport to reach 40 millions of passenger capacity by its launch in 2028. Its a large upgrade over Warsaw-Chopin airport but is it doable?

The global passenger volume has been significantly decreased since the start of the pandemic, but the aviation industry hasn’t ceased to its infrastructure. Polish government has announced that it will build a new airport in Warsaw, the capital of the country. In addition, Seoul, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) will invest in the […]

British Airways has announced that it will be launching four new short-haul routes to Eastern Europe. The summer routes will begin in July, and all operate from the airline’s London Heathrow home. The first of the flag carrier’s new flights is on July 1 to Wroclaw. The other three services to Gdansk, Poland; Riga, Latvia […]

Today, a press release by Boeing set off some alarms in the aviation industry: for the first time, an official statement from the company referred to the troubled 737 MAX as the Boeing 737-8 instead of the well known MAX 8 moniker the variant had carried since its inception. The 737-8 identification is far from […]

The owner of the national airline of Poland, LOT, has announced it has purchased former Thomas Cook-owned carrier, Condor. The German leisure carrier has been without an owner since the collapse of Thomas Cook earlier last year. The combined carriers will operate 140 aircraft, serving 20 million passengers between bases in Poland and Germany. The […]

Ryanair Holdings Group, the parent company of Irish ultra-low-cost carrier Ryanair, is to rebrand its Polish-based subsidiary Ryanair Sun as Buzz. The carrier, which has operated using a Polish Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) since April 2018, took over from Ryanair’s scheduled Polish operations in September of the same year after initial service as a charter […]

Poland is planning a new mega-airport to help aviation traffic grow and become the hub for Central and Eastern Europe. Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law legislation laying out the rules for organizing and carrying out the development and construction of the new airport, news which national carrier LOT Polish Airlines (LOT) welcomed. Rafał […]

Polish carrier LOT has received its first Boeing 737 MAX under a leasing agreement with Air Lease Corporation. LOT will become the second European carrier after Norwegian to operate Boeing’s overhauled 737 jet. The 737 MAX 8 aircraft with the registration SP-LVA left Boeing’s factory in Everett, Wash. ferrying to Warsaw via Reykjavik. “We are […]