The airline will bump up flight frequency to four-times weekly from July 2018. If response proves successful, the airline plans to introduce daily flights, said Rafał Milczarski, CEO, LOT Polish Airlines.
LOT Polish Airlines is establishing direct connectivity to Singapore for the first time with the launch of thrice-weekly non-stop flights between Warsaw and Singapore starting May 15, 2018.
The airline will bump up flight frequency to four-times weekly from July 2018. If response proves successful, the airline plans to introduce daily flights, said Rafał Milczarski, CEO, LOT Polish Airlines.
Flights will depart from Warsaw before midnight, and arrive in Singapore the following evening, while flights from Singapore will take-off slightly past midnight and arrive in Warsaw at 6.15 local time the same morning. The total flight time is 11 hours and 50 minutes.
Travellers will be able to connect to other Polish cities as well as destinations across central and eastern Europe, making their connecting flights as fast as 60-75 minutes.
The move to Singapore comes after the carrier’s 22-year absence from Singapore, and is prompted by healthy passenger volumes of over 3.6 million between Europe and Singapore in the first 10 months of 2017.
Milczarski also shared that the Polish government plans to build a new “global airport hub in Poland”. The intermodal hub will include significant train connectivity, serving customers from central and Western Europe, Milczarski said.
“While the hub’s initial capacity will be 50 million passengers, this will be expandable to a capacity of about 200 million, if need be.”
Currently, the airline flies to four other destinations in Asia including four times weekly to Astana in Kazakhstan, thrice weekly to Beijing, and five times weekly to Seoul and Tokyo respectively.
Speaking also at the launch event, Robert Andrzejczyk, president of the Polish Tourism Organisation shared that Poland’s expansion plans into South-east Asian markets are focussed on two core countries, Singapore and Malaysia, and supplementary markets, the Philippines and Indonesia.