Hello and welcome to my trip report to Poland.
My flights for this trip:
TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) -> WRO (Wroclaw, Poland) LO B738 Economy
WRO (Wroclaw, Poland) -> TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) FR B738 Economy - Cancelled
GDN (Gdansk, Poland) -> TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) LO B738 Economy
Lot Polish Airlines in Israel:
Current to 2018 the airline operates 21 weekly flights from TLV to Poland. Flights to Warsaw are operating by Boeing 737-800 and Embraer E195 during the winter season.
LOT'S destinations from Tel Aviv:
- Warsaw (2 daily flights)
- Poznan (1 weekly flight)
- Rzeszow (1 weekly flight)
- Wroclaw (2 weekly flights)
- Gdansk (1 weekly flight)
- Lublin (2 weekly flights)
From July 2018 all the flights will be operated by Boeing 738 MAX.
Day of the flight:
Our plane made his way from Warsaw:
I took a train from Tel Aviv to Ben Gurion Airport. The trip lasted for about 20 minutes and cost 13 NIS (around 4$). I was at the airport at 6:20PM for 8:50PM depart,
I took a trolley so I hadn't needed to wait at the check-in counter. The security check was really fast and I finished everything after 10 minutes.
I did a short tour in concourse E area which opened 2 weeks ago, also it includes double jet-bridges as the first time at TLV airport.
B5 will be the gate that will host my airplane today:
Georgian Airlines Embraer E190 arrived from Tbilisi (TBS), Georgia and Norwegian Boeing 737-800 arrived from Copenhagen (CPH), Denmark:
Delta Airlines Airbus A330-300 will depart today to New York (JFK), NY, USA later this night:
Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER arrived from Istanbul (IST), Turkey:
Armenia AirCompany Boeing 737-500 will depart to Yerevan (EVN), Armenia and Tarom Boeing 737-800 landed from Bucharest (OTP), Romania:
El Al Boeing 737-900ER landed from London (LTN), UK:
Korean Air Boeing 777-300ER landed from Seoul (ICN), South Korea. Usually the flights to TLV operated by A332 or B772 so I was very excited to spot it:
Transavia Boeing 737-800 landed from Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS), United Airlines Boring 777-300ER will depart to Newark (EWR), NJ, USA and my plane (LOT Boeing 737-800) landed from Warsaw (WAW), Poland:
My plane for today: Boeing 737-800, reg SP-LWA, delivred to LOT Polish Airlines in May 2017 after buying from China Eastern Airlines:
My flight was delayed:
Boarding started at 8:30PM instead of 8:10PM. The crew arranged the plane less than 30 min!
In the jetbridge:
First view:
The new cabin smells and looking good for 4 hours flight:
Row:
Tray table:
Pitch is good (I'm 5"10/178 cm):
Nice view on this Korean Air's amazing Boeing 777-300ER:
After quick boarding safety demostrations was shown in Polish and English and we started our taxi to runway 26:
The captain said that the flight time from Tel Aviv to Wroclaw will be 3 hours and 50 minutes
The flight load was about 60% with many empty seats and no one was sitting in the Business Class sector.
Cabin before Take-off:
Take off from runway 26;
Bye bye Israel!
Lot's safety card, InFlight gourment menu and their magazins:
The service in the flight included a cup of water/coffe/tea and chocolate bar for free. Other drinks and food cost money:
Many clouds over the mediterrian sea:
Lavatory:
Cabin:
Over Rhodes Island, Greece:
Time to descend into WRO airport:
Ostrava, Czech Airlines:
Czech Republic and the Tatrty mountains under snow:
2 minutes before landing:
Touchdown!
Lot Embarer E195 landed from Warsaw (WAW), Poland:
Bye bye my plane! It will be departing at 6:00AM back to TLV and than to WAW:
Many Ryanair planes:
Timetable at WRO airport:
Thanks for a very nice report with great spotting in TLV. Pity LOT has such a poor service, it's high time they offered something more than this. The cabin looks ok, how were the seats? Hope you had a nice time in Poland!
Hi and thanks for reading!
The seats were really comfortable with a good recline. Service was poor for 4 hours as I chose the cheapest option. I ate at the airport so I wasn't hungry onboard.
Thanks for this FR.
Given the flight duration, the catering coud be better than the usual one they serve on European flights.
But at 64$ you can't really expect too much.
Beautiful pictures before landing with the snow covered landscapes.
Hey and thanks for reading my report!
In my opnion 64$ for 4 hours flight is really cheap . I got drinks, pillow and blanket. It's great!
Some airlines don't serve meals for free on their flights from/to TLV like UIA, LOT, Blue Air
The views were nice but most of the flight were above clouds....
Hi Yonatan, thanks for a nice report as usual! The new-ish cabin looks quite nice and fresh. I'm surprised there wasn't more substantial service for a 4 hour flight, but you definitely can't beat that $64 price! It's always nice, and so rare, to have a half empty cabin like that.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Kevin,
I can't complain for 64$ flight. For example Ryanair is cheaper on this route, tickets can cost 20$!!!
The flight was half empty and some people slept on the benches as it was a evening flight.
The cabin is pretty comfortable and better than LH/OS narrowbody's jets.
Hi Kevin,
The flight ticket is really cheap but it could be half if I'd chose to fly with Ryanair.
Seats were comfortable, more than OS/LH A320's and every passenger got blanket and pillow.
You could see pax that were slept on 3 seats each.