Eurolot to lease one of LOT's Dreamliners
State-controlled Eurolot plans to lease one of the Dreamliners from another state-controlled airline LOT. “We plan to use the machine to open-up long distance routes,” said Eurolot CEO Tomasz Balcerzak in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, adding that company is mulling both eastern and western destinations as possible routes.
So far Eurolot was only flying on national routes and has a few short, international connections. Most of its domestic flights are within LOT’s flight network, as both airlines have an extensive cooperation agreement.
But such close cooperation is under scrutiny of European Commission which currently evaluates LOT rescue plan and has to approve financial aid, that Poland’s biggest air carrier received in December 2012. The EC is checking whether such agreements between two state-owned operators are not in breach of the EU’s competition laws.
