LOT relaunches internal flights thanks to help from local government

LOT decided to return to these less popular routes, which it once operated, but then suspended. The airline plans not to use its own, relatively large planes, but 19-seat Jetstream 31 planes owned by a private company, the name of which LOT does not want to disclose before the deal is finalized. The idea is to give businesspeople from those cities the opportunity to take a morning flight to Warsaw and then get on a LOT flight abroad. "The flights will be operated by a private carrier, but passengers will buy a single ticket, with LOT responsible for the whole route and taking on the business risk," says Marek Serafin, LOT's director of connections and timetable management. However, the national carrier will be sharing part of that risk with the Lubuskie voivodship government, which shall purchase a block of seats on the flights to and from Zielona Góra. (Puls Biznesu, p. 13) T.J.