LOT Polish Airlines has adjusted its schedule for the upcoming 2025/26 winter season, which runs from October 26 to March 28, mostly increasing operations to markets in the former Yugoslavia compared to the previous winter, particularly during the first quarter of 2026. However, the carrier will temporarily suspend flights between Warsaw and Skopje for a month and a half. The route will be maintained three times per week in November, December and early January, before being halted from January 11 to February 21. Services will then resume at three weekly rotations for the remainder of the season. Last winter, LOT operated the route three times per week throughout the entire season.
The Polish carrier will boost its operations to Sarajevo by maintaining flights to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital throughout the entire winter season. Last year, the airline suspended the route from January 11 to February 22, but this winter it will operate three weekly rotations between the two cities without interruption. As reported earlier this week, LOT is also extending its winter service to Dubrovnik. In the previous season, flights from Warsaw to the coastal city ended on December 31 and resumed on March 1. This time around, the airline will continue operating twice weekly throughout January and February.
LOT is increasing frequencies on its Zagreb flights over the upcoming winter season, maintaining ten weekly services between the two cities, up from eight last winter. During one week in November, frequencies will rise to eleven per week. In Ljubljana, the airline will continue operating six weekly flights, with no reductions planned for January and February. Last winter, services were cut to five weekly during this period. Operations to Belgrade will remain steady at eleven weekly rotations, increasing to twelve weekly from February 23. Flights to Podgorica will continue to be maintained at three per week.
Over the upcoming winter, LOT is adding the most capacity on its Belgrade route when compared to the previous winter season, with an additional 7.600 seats, followed by Dubrovnik with an extra 4.200 seats, Zagreb with an added 3.800 and Sarajevo with an extra 2.800 seats, while Ljubljana and Podgorica remain unchanged. On the other hand, Skopje will lose 3.000 seats. Changes remain possible, particularly in capacity levels as LOT modifies its equipment deployment on a regular basis.
Interesting about Skopje. Simmilar to what Lufthansa is doing there this winter.
ReplyDeleteThat's why Wizz needs to launch SKP-WAW
DeleteLH is in February and March
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/05/lufthansa-to-suspend-skopje-service-for.html
I dont get it why they suspend SKP , is it because that period of year SKP is facing huge fogs with a days and there is alot of cancelled flights and delays..
DeleteIf there is no enough demand why they just not send smaller aircraft , I really dont get this decisions for suspending routes in winter time
DeleteThey simply can't beat TK. They are the dominant force in SKP. Great prices, great hub, great food, great IFE... LOT can't compete with that and their old Dreamliners which have less than mediocre IFE and their overall state is really not good.
Delete09:03 Wizz cannot handle SKP-WAW because all people flying LOT from SKP are mainly connections to Usa and Canada and smaller portion Europe hubs. Wizz does not offer any connection and in Poland there is no Macedonian diaspora and there is no point to point people.... but LOT is extremely expensive from SKP , I dont know how are other Ex-yu airports , and in summer route is doing great with mostly E190/195 and also I saw Max...
DeletePeople can self-connect in WAW, that is what many from the Balkans do in ZAG when they are going to Toronto or Seoul. They fly on FR and then continue on other airlines.
Delete@9.03 not WAW but i can imagine Warsaw (Modlin),
Delete@9.19 if TK were "dominant" they would be flying more then 2 daily
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DeleteI undertand what are you saying , but LOT is doing very well all other months of the year from Skopje , just check they are using mostly E195,190 even Max planes , but I guess this winter the demand was not as expected so they decide to cut for a month and a half. Since launching 10 years ago this is first time
DeleteSo what plane will they send the Belgrade? E95?
ReplyDeleteAdmin with these and other increases, what is capacity growth in BEG for the rest of 25?
Last winter they mostly used E170s and E175s on the route. From what I can see this winter they are using mostly E195s and even have MAX 8s scheduled.
DeleteAlthough I should mention that this does not mean much in LOT's case. They are very flexible with equipment depending on demand.
DeleteYes, they really change it all the time. It's impossible to keep track of them. Last winter they also planned E95 almost the whole winter but in the end we barely got them. It was mostly E70/75 with an occasional E90.
DeleteCan't wait for the A220s, although E295s was a logical choice for them...
ReplyDeleteDoesen't the current fleet with E170s and E190s give them much more flexibility in terms of capacity? Looking just at ex-Yu, they used the E170/75s heavily.
Delete@9:20 political move that wont help out their company 😁
DeleteI think that the efficiency of A221 beats the price per flight of E175; so it's a net zero in that case
DeleteYeah, A221 efficiency is so great that Swiss is getting rid of them. Egyptair removing entire 220 fleet. Will not remind of engine issues which old Embraers don't have and corrosion problems.
DeleteSwiss is not getting rid of them! Stop spreading propaganda!
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteYes but no change in capacity.
DeleteWith the prices LOT having to SKP I am not surprised. I am living in North America and this airline is the most expensive to fly with. For the service providing their prices are redicilous.
ReplyDeleteThat's because they are full from North America.
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeletehahah This is great, I am always enjoying bravohrvatska comment. So random and funny.
DeletePity for SKP
ReplyDeleteLast year Sarajevo this year Skopje , next year somome else , I guess every winter someone getting this :D
DeleteGood news for Sarajevo and Dubrovnik!
ReplyDeleteCutting Skopje for a month and a half doesn’t make sense unless yields were really bad during that period
ReplyDeleteThey do the same last winter to Sarajevo , exactly the same dates the same period cutted ... same scenario another airport
DeleteThe airlines prefer sending aircraft to the maintenance during winter and they’ll cut least profitable destinations/frequencies to do so…
DeleteLjubljana holding steady at 6 per week is at least some stability, but I wish they’d increase it to daily year round.
ReplyDeleteSolid overall
ReplyDeleteLOT should launch OMO flights as well. It's both useful for transfers and for religious tourism.
ReplyDeleteLOT is a great option for connections to NA from BEG. Much better frequencies and coverage than JU, and lower prices than LH group. They often have much better flight times too, not requiring you to be at the airport at 5am, since they ofer the 2pm BEG-WA flight with NA connections
ReplyDeleteMany people don't like to use it due to Warsaw Airport.
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