Polish airline LOT puts confidence in post-Brexit UK
LOT Polish Airlines is to increase capacity on its Warsaw-Heathrow flights, brushing aside uncertainties over a possible Brexit effect on air travel.
The airline, which operates three flights a day between Warsaw and London, is phasing in new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft on the route.
The planes carry 186 passengers, 74 more than the Embraer 195 now used on the service.
Over the past year, the percentage of seats sold on LOT’s Warsaw-London route has hit 80pc on average.
Rafal Milczarski, LOT’s chief executive, said: “There is a demand for our services, and the million or so Poles living in the UK offer great potential.”
The airline said demand from business travellers was strong, and that more people from the UK were using Warsaw as a transfer point to avoid the “crowded hubs of western Europe”.
Mr Milczarski added that while Brexit meant “we live in a world of uncertainty” he was confident that an agreement would be reached maintaining the open skies policies that govern European air space.
“If there’s an agreement, nothing will change,” he said. “Britain is an attractive base for Poles, and I doubt many Poles will be leaving the UK.”
