Lo cierto es que en los últimos años la compañía (hoy es propiedad de LOT y del gobierno polaco) ha ido creciendo, y aparte de tener una importante red doméstica y operar bastantes vuelos en nombre de la matriz, ahora se plantean operar alguno de los 787 que tantos problemas han dado a la compañía matriz, para volar a Bangkok. Esto de que las filiales regionales, más pequeñas y efectivas, acaben tomando parte (o todo) el tráfico de la compañía madre también nos suena ...
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We know the deal pretty well already: almost every European major carrier has, at one moment or another, launched a domestic / regional subsidiary. In 1997, polish LOT decided that their domestic operation was both inneffective and money-wasting, and launched a new airline, Eurolot, which took its ATR-72 fleet and its domestic flights.
The airline is currently owned by LOT itself and the Polish government, and since then has managed to grow into not only a domestic operation, but also a regional carrier that flies to several European countries on behalf of LOT. There are now plans to operate some of the troublesome LOT 787 to Bangkok by Eurolot, another cost-cutting messure which also resembles other moves where smaller, more efficient regional carriers took some (or all !) of the routes previously flown by the mother airline.
Bonus track: Unas páginas de la revista de a bordo de la compañía madre LOT, poco después del lanzamiento de la filial regional (Agosto de 1997).
Some pages from the mainline LOT inflight magazine, a few weeks after the regional carrier was launched (August 1997)
