LOT Polish Airlines will temporarily increase frequencies on its services from Warsaw to both Zagreb and Ljubljana in response to strong demand during the summer season. Starting in September, the carrier will boost its Zagreb operations from twelve to fifteen weekly flights, while frequencies to Ljubljana will increase from nine to eleven weekly services.
LOT currently operates up to twelve weekly flights between Warsaw and Zagreb. From September, the airline will increase frequencies to fifteen weekly services with the introduction of additional flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The aircraft will overnight in Zagreb before returning to Warsaw on Wednesdays, Fridays and Mondays. The additional services will operate under flight numbers LO609 and LO610.
Commenting on the expansion, LOT said, “Zagreb remains one of LOT Polish Airlines’ most important destinations in the region. Throughout 2026, the carrier will offer more than 118.000 seats on this route, compared to 108.800 in 2025 and 97.000 in 2024. Flights to the Croatian capital are operated using Embraer aircraft, as well as Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets. LOT’s current offering to Croatia also includes two seasonal routes: Split, which is served four times per week, and Dubrovnik, with three weekly flights”. The airline added, “Between 2001 and 2025, more than one million passengers travelled to Croatia aboard LOT Polish Airlines aircraft. During that period, the airline operated more than 16.000 flights to Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Rijeka and Pula, including services from Poland’s regional airports”.
LOT currently operates up to nine weekly flights between Warsaw and Ljubljana. From September, the airline will increase frequencies to eleven weekly services with the introduction of additional flights between the two capitals on Wednesdays and Fridays. The return services from Ljubljana will operate on Thursdays and Saturdays. The additional flights will be operated under flight numbers LO621 and LO622. Commenting on the expansion, LOT said, “The Warsaw - Ljubljana route is one of LOT Polish Airlines’ key connections in Southern Europe. Thanks to a convenient flight schedule, passengers from Slovenia are provided with access to the carrier’s extensive network via its Warsaw hub, offering connections across Europe, North America and Asia”. The airline recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of operations to the Slovenian capital.
Excellent news
ReplyDeleteGood to see another airline overnighting in both cities
ReplyDeleteCould someone list which airlines spends the night at both airports?
DeleteZAG: LH (FRA, MUC), KL (AMS), LO (WAW) from 09/26
DeleteLJU: Lufthansa (FRA), KLM (AMS), Swiss (ZRH), AFR (CDG - in July and August), and now LOT.
DeleteThank you. Pretty impressive for LJU considering its size.
DeleteDon't people claim how LJU is very expensive. If so many airlines are happy to park planes overnight in LJU it does not seem it is that expensive.
Deletewhy airserbia doesnt stay overnight?
DeleteAirline overnighting just means it is relying on transfer passengers.
DeleteYou need to be very selective when reading comments on here, lots of hyperbole from 'experts'
Delete@9.07 guy here. I was mistaken, AFR won't be leaving their planes overnight at the airport this year. Last year they did it in the peak season, but this year they changed the timing. AFR's numbers are sadly falling even more this year. In the winter months, their decrease was between 10 and 20 %.
DeleteI don't understand, why they are not more proactive on the slovenian market, their LF in Feb and March was 87%!
@09:10 Air Serbia fits LJU into their westbound departure banks, so they're relying on transfers to their eastbound routes, their nighttime bank is mostly eastbound, so LJU wouldn't make sense for them.
DeleteYeah i was going to say. It would connect on to munch unless it wss very very early to leave Ljubljana.
DeleteJU sells LJU-BEG-MUC tickets for cheaper than anyone else on the market for the summer, so I guess it will be the same for the winter too, and they are smart, so we could very well see flights being adjusted for MUC feeding if AirDolomiti won't take the LJU-MUC route
DeleteYou forgot Qatar, Transat and T'way with couple or several overnights in ZAG
Delete^Not a single one of those ovenights in ZAG.
DeleteAre you telling me that Transat has the same crew flying YYZ-ZAG-YYZ? Because it's impossible and illegal. Law require the crew to have rest. And with 3 weekly flights, they have two and three consecutive overnights in Zagreb. You may call it diferrent names, like layover, stopover, rest outside of base, or whatever, but it does not change the fact that they fly in to Zagreb, take ground transportation, and stay in the hotel for one or more nights before returning home. Qatar and T'way as well. As simple as that
DeleteOvernight is not referring to crew rest or layover but the plane spending the night at the airport.
DeleteFifteen weekly flights to Zagreb in September is impressive.
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DeleteLOT has done an excellent job timing its schedules for onward connections to North America.
ReplyDeleteWhile Jasmin drinking his coffee and proudly serving Minken and Vrankvurt
DeleteThis should improve connectivity and offer more convenient departure times.
ReplyDeleteFinally! LOT decided to become competitive in transit market finally!
ReplyDeleteLooks like LOT and airBaltic can both coexist and prosper in Ljubljana. Those are the numbers in the first four months of 2026 for LOT compared to 2025:
ReplyDelete3028 (+ 12,4 % + 335)
3701 (+ 39,6 % + 1049)
4412 ( + 10,5 % + 420)
6232 (+ 13,7 % + 752)
AirBaltic is also very successful, achieving a high 83 % LF in April (last year it was 74 %), and many of the flights in May and June had only a few seats on sale remaining. Wouldn't be surprised if they would go 4x per week next summer.
Good to see. To be honest, I thought air Baltic would have an impact on them
DeleteWould be interesting to see what is the load factor. Good to see growth though
DeleteCapacity and LF for the first four months compared to 2025:
Delete4664 64,9% (4200 64,1%)
5650 65,5% (3916 67,7%)
6924 63,7% (5532 72,2%)
8584 72,6% (8000 68,5%)
Kind of average loads
DeleteCould've been better tbh
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteBravo Polska!
DeleteBardzo dobze
DeleteFraport continues to do a stelar job with increasing capacity at LJU!
ReplyDeleteWell their job is far from stellar but it is going in the right direction, yes.
DeleteStellar job 🤣
Deletehahah stealr omg
DeleteLOT will now be the latest airline of the day and the earliest in Ljubljana. Their new flights will arrive at 12:30am and depart at 5:30am, very nice to see that.
ReplyDeleteExcellent for connections via WAW. FRA and MUC must be filling the pressure.
DeleteWell do remember there will be no more MUC from the end of October.
DeleteAir Serbia needs similar schedule
DeleteLOT's expansion in the region is bad news for JU's network to North America.
ReplyDeleteThey get a lot of transfers from the Balkans to the US and Canada that otherwise might fly with JU via BEG.
We are already used to that everything is bad news for JU. Somehow they keep expanding, both short and long haul flights. New route number 7 for this year launching this week.
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DeleteAlso bad for LHG.
I think the @09:14 was being facetious.
DeleteAir Serbia had more than a million long-haul passengers. Those passengers must have been taken away from competition, most likely European StarAlliance airlines. That's the real bad news for them, esp with significant growth of Air Serbia long-haul destinations and passengers since 2022.
DeleteI mean its great. Air Serbia are doing well. But its no threat at all to established longhaul operations elsewhere in Europe.
DeleteIt certainly is to LOT in Belgrade which handles 60% of Canada-Belgrade passengers.
DeleteWell JU's canada ops are quite limited. So hardly a 'threat'
DeleteIf they didn't find them a threat they would not have reduced prices Belgrade-Canada vs last year.
Delete^ yeah right
DeleteYes it is correct. As someone who travels on this route regularly. I don't understand why you find this such an issue.
DeleteHe finds it an issue because you are talking about JU. If you talked about any other airline he would be fine with it.
DeleteLOT has grown its network a lot in the last year so I'm not susprised there are more transfers. However, I'm kind of schocked when I see some of the new routes they have added in the sense I'm shocked they didn't serve these routes before. For example, until last year they didn't fly to Lisbon or Malaga or Larnaca. Kind of crazy for an airline from such a large market.
ReplyDeleteIt is kind of odd
DeleteThese are long routes from WAW. It's post-COVID that LOT started to fly more leisure routes. There are several factors. People have more and more money. More people look not only at the price of the ticket, but also at the comfort and the the departure hours. Moreover, the Poles become more and more Poland-oriented in a sense of being proud of Polish companies etc. So, if the price difference between LOT and Wizz/Ryan is not big, there is a growing group of Poles who can afford to choose a bit more expensive tickets.
DeleteLarnaca used to be their destination in the past, so it's coming back to the old market.
The additional frequencies suggest LOT is happy with yields
ReplyDeleteWell obviously
DeleteNot necessary. Those are mainly transfer routes, without real profit. Real profit is on connection long haul
DeleteThis is where a strong hub strategy pays off. LOT doesn't need huge local demand when it can feed traffic from across its network.
ReplyDeleteYes, but it means yields are softer on the shorter leg.
DeleteI wonder how much of this demand comes from transit passengers rather than point-to-point traffic.
ReplyDeleteFar more than half the passengers on each flight will be transfers.
DeleteThis is ilinked to stronger demand from Asia. LOT's connections to Seoul, Tokyo and Delhi are attractive and people are avoiding the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteMost passengers fly where the price/timings work.
DeleteGood move by LOT. More frequencies are often more valuable than larger aircraft because they provide better connection opportunities.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteThis will only be until the end of summer, right?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteFor now
DeleteI'm pretty certain that they'll keep the morning departure on some days for Ljubljana, and next summer I see them flying morning departure and PM one throughtout the summer season
DeleteWonder if LOT will be impacted by the planned Modlin-Zagreb flights by Ryanair.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it. LOT is primarily used for transfers from/to Zagreb
DeleteModlin is not a great alternative for Warsaw.
DeleteWhen is the new Warsaw airport planned?
Deleteplanned to open by the end of 2032.
DeleteWhy isn't Croatia Airlines capturing more transfer traffc? Why does it not serve Poland at all?
ReplyDeleteIs this a serious question?
DeleteMaybe its a self-reflective cry for help during Jasmin's 3rd break.
DeleteLet's see if there will be winter growth too.
ReplyDeleteI see an opening for some carrier at LJU when Lufthansa closes Munich.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are switching capacity to ITA? There were some roumors about ITA starting flights to Rome.
DeleteITA is not interested at the moment, they serve Slovenia/Ljubljana from TRS. There are some rumors that another airline will start FCO.
DeleteSkyAlps could try it honestly. They have perfect equipment for W flight to some other destinations that Fraport is constantly reminding us of. Like Prague, Berlin and ARN
DeleteIf thats true probably W6
DeleteAir Dolomiti maybe?
DeleteAir Dolomiti is not an independent entity.
DeleteWhat difference does it make?
DeleteWhat equipment does LOT use to Ljubljana?
ReplyDeleteEverything from E75 to B737 MAX8
DeleteThanks. Good that they can be flexible.
DeleteWhat a nice view of Warsaw from the airport in that pic :)
ReplyDeleteTrue, although it is not the most recent. The skyline now looks even more impressive, especially with Varso Tower, the tallest building in the EU.
DeleteIt's nice on departure too, you can see the skyline as the plane lifts off.
DeleteBeautiful. That Varso Tower impressive spire adds 80m to the top floor at 230m (750ft). Stunning.
DeleteI just looked it up. Was not aware it's the tallest in the EU.
DeleteLove LOT. Happy to see them grow
ReplyDeleteI wish they would add flights from Krakow or Gdansk to some ex-Yu destinations.
ReplyDeleteThey are expanding more and more from secondary Polish cities but they are still connecting them to main capitals in Western Europe so I doubt we will see any flights to ex-Yu soon.
DeleteThey are expanding in secondary cities because they can't grow from Warsaw anymore due to congestion and slot restrictions.
DeleteThere used to be flights from KRK to DBV... Maybe one day it will come back.
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