LOT orders 3 more Dreamliners, to have fleet of 15 by end 2019

Polish national airline LOT has ordered another three Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners under an operating lease. The aircraft will be delivered in 2019, the carrier has announced. Taking into account all contracts signed, in this and next year the carrier will have six Dreamliners in its fleet, reaching the number of 15 such aircraft in total. "We are pleased that thanks to another contract for the new Dreamliners, we will be able to develop our network of long-distance connections in record time. In total, by the end of 2019, we will have as many as 15 Boeing 787, which is not only with the historical LOT record but also confirmation that our strategy can be considered as realized in principle," said Adrian Kubicki, director of LOT's Corporate Communication Office. Fleet development is one of the elements of a consistently implemented strategy of profitable growth, which assumes that by 2020 LOT will transport over 10.5 million passengers. LOT carries over 6.8 million passengers per year with a fleet of 54 aircraft. In total, nine LOT Dreamliners currently make direct flights from Warsaw to New York, Newark, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul, from Krakow to Chicago, and from Rzeszów to Newark.