LOT to open up new routes

LOT’s new strategic partnership agreement with the Estonian carrier Nordica will enable the airline to introduce new routes across northern Europe and Scandinavia beginning later this month, according to a recent report in Gazeta Prawna. The Polish airline plans to acquire 49 percent of Nordica subsidiary Regional Jet’s shares. LOT will employ at least four smaller jets previously used by Nordica, which was created after its parent company Estonian Airlines, collapsed in 2015. The Polish carrier is re-branding the line by replacing the Nordica logo with LOT’s emblem, although the new logo will maintain Nordica’s colours. The new routes will fly between various cities, including an additional Warsaw-Tallinn daily route (bringing the number of daily flights between those capital cities to two per day) on November 27 this year. A fifth daily flight between the Polish capital and Vilnius, Lithuania is reported to begin later this year. LOT, which, according to the company’s press release, is trying to strengthen its presence in the Baltics. After suffering from profit losses in previous years, it is expected to close this year in the black.