LOT to launch Warsaw-Tokyo direct flights

For the first time in seven years, state-owned LOT recorded net profits from its primary activity (carrying passengers) last year, the company is able to launch new long-distance connections, one of them is to be a Warsaw (Chopin Airport) -Tokyo (Narita) direct flight, aeronews.pl reported. The web portal informed that LOT will likely choose the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to carry its passengers. The first flight will fly to Tokyo in January 2016. The airline will present its strategy next week, but the web portal said that LOT plans to double its fleet by 2020. Currently, it has as its disposal six Dreamliners and around 30 other airplanes.