Eurolot

Warsaw Chopin

Eurolot (earlier spelling EuroLot ) is a Polish regional airline based in Warsaw and based on the local Chopin Airport. It is a subsidiary of LOT.

History

The Company was incorporated on 19 December 1996 and adopted on 1 July 1997 flight operations on. First was flown with its own timetable and route network, but they decided quickly to cooperate with the Polish state airline LOT. Therefore, eight ATR leased 72 of LOT including crews. In 1998, two BAe Jetstream 31 Eurolot in the fleet.

Since 2000 Eurolot flies exclusively for LOT and therefore also took over all remaining ATR aircraft of this. At the same time began to replace the ATR 42-300 ATR 42-500 by. The latter were also replaced in the meantime.

On 8 June 2010 the Polish Ministry of Defence has two Embraer 175 rented by Eurolot, in order to use for the carriage of members of the government and the president. The Polish government decided to use these machines after the government machine, a Tupolev Tu- 154M, in the plane crash near Smolensk on April 10, 2010, for President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 other people consisting of senior officers, politicians and clergy were killed, was destroyed. The contract between the government and Eurolot is valid until 2013. One of the two Embraer 175 was repainted in the colors of the Polish government.

On October 25, 2013 Eurolot looked from her last ATR 72-200.

Destinations

Eurolot primarily serves national goals such as Bydgoszcz, Poznan, Szczecin and Wroclaw. In other European countries, for example, Dortmund, Bremen, Zurich, Vienna, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne / Bonn and Prague are served.

Fleet

As of October 2013, the fleet consists of 12 planes Eurolot with an average age of 6.6 years:

• Bombardier Dash 8Q -400 9
• 3 Embraer 175 (2 operated for the Polish government; 1 operated for LOT)

• 5 Bombardier Dash 8Q -400