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Poland prime minister: LOT must change to survive

LOT Polish Airlines is facing massive layoffs and deep restructuring measures as it struggles to survive.

LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 787. Courtesy, LOT LOT Polish Airlines is facing massive layoffs and deep restructuring measures as it struggles to survive, according to Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk. He has been quoted in several Polish media outlets as saying, “Either there is a change [within the airline] or LOT will not survive.”   Additionally, Mikosz told journalists that LOT’s two Boeing 787s will be removed from the summer schedule through ...

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Night Watchman
on Mar 25, 2013

Here is a reaction of Poland's LOT.

---"Poland's treasury ministry has insisted that flag-carrier LOT must be compensated for the Boeing 787 grounding, during an extensive parliamentary session in which the cost was estimated at $50,000 daily.

Treasury minister Mikolaj Budzanowski, while updating the Sejm on 22 March, suggested the total cost could reach 50 million zloty "or more" - around $15 million - and said this amount "must be returned to the company in the future".
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