LOT Polish Airlines' fleet has a strong regional and short-haul focus. Indeed, data from shows that the Polish flag carrier has just 16 widebodies in its current 78-aircraft setup, with 15 Boeing 787s and one leased Airbus A330-900 accounting for less than 20% of the carrier's planes. Nonetheless, widebodies play an important role in connecting Poland directly to longer-haul destinations.
This role at Poland's national airline previously fell to aircraft from the family, with LOT having operated multiple examples of both the 767-200ER and 767-300ER variants over the years. While now no longer part of the furniture at the Warsaw-based member, ' use of the type is still relatively fresh in the memory. Let's examine its relationship with these planes.
According to historical fleet data made available by ch-aviation, the first variant of 's 767 family that LOT Polish Airlines received was the 767-200ER. This model entered service in 1984, and was an extended-range version of the original 767-200, which itself had been introduced in 1982. The Polish flag carrier took delivery of its first 767-200ER in April 1989, with the second coming in May 1990.
Love ? Discover more of our stories here! These aircraft were registered as SP-LOA and SP-LOB, and, according to , respectively bore the names and , after two Polish cities. The Boeing 767 served to replace the Ilyushin Il-62, which had , at LOT, and both aircraft enjoyed nearly two decades of service with the Polish flag carrier, event.