Treasury announces LOT could be Star Alliance partner

The State Treasury has announced that the German airline Lufthansa is interested in including LOT Polish Airlines in the Star Alliance airline network led by Lufthansa. According to the Treasury, Juergen Weber, president of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, tabled the proposal yesterday to Treasury Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek. However, in an announcement obtained by Rzeczpospolita, Lufthansa stated that no such thing happened and, according to the company, the issues discussed by the two parties pertained to cooperation between the airlines and not LOT inclusion in the Star Alliance. In addition to this, Lufthansa informed it was not interested in buying a stake in LOT. Weber's visit to Warsaw on Wednesday was not intended to get much publicity. According to unofficial information, representatives of British Airways will visit Warsaw soon. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) P.J.