LOT Polish awards haven’t been bookable on United.com for quite some time.
For more advanced award hackers that has been a blessing in disguise. It meant that fewer people knew how to book it, which meant better award availability.
But for better or worse you can once again book LOT awards on United.com and availability is excellent.
Searching random dates for 2 award seats came up with LOT award space in coach and in business. The connection times aren’t great, but you can always leave the airport and explore Warsaw. You can also get a free stopover to stay in Warsaw for as long as you wish. This itinerary can be booked for 85K United miles in coach or 160K United miles in business:
LOT flies from Chicago, JFK, and Toronto to Warsaw on the 787 Dreamliner and they have a pretty decent looking business class seat:
To help find availability you may want to search for JFK-Warsaw separately from Warsaw-Tel Aviv. Once you find dates that work you can just search for JFK-Warsaw, or you can use the multiple destination award search to book an award by specifying JFK-Warsaw and then Warsaw-Tel Aviv, or you can call to stitch together an award.
To search for just LOT Polish flights start by searching for the sample date in the picture above where you know there is availability from JFK-WAW and then click nonstop flights only. If you search for a date without nonstop availability then the calendar will show connecting availability instead of nonstop availability only.
The calendar below is only displaying nonstop award flight availability from JFK to Warsaw for 2 passengers. Scroll through the months to see what’s available. Green dates mean saver coach and business award space is available:
Same goes for WAW-TLV:
As always, if you’re willing to spend a night at a connection point it will always be easier to find award availability. Of course the award search engine won’t know you’re willing to do that, so you need to search for each segment separately before attempting to stitch them together onto one itinerary. You are allowed to stay up to 24 hours as a connection, plus stay as long as you want as a stopover in addition to the destination you’re trying to reach on an award ticket. That makes for lots of options if you’re willing to make longer connections than the computer would normally price out.
For those keeping score at home here is the remaining list of United partners that must be booked over the phone:
-Air India
-Brussels Airlines
-Cape Air
-Great Lakes Airlines
-Jet Airways
-Shenzhen
-Singapore
And here’s the list of partners now bookable on United.com.:
-Adria Airlines
-Aegean Airlines
-Aer Lingus
-Air Canada
-Air China
-Air New Zealand
-ANA
-Asiana Airlines
-Austrian Airlines
-Avianca Airlines
-Azul Brazilian Airlines
-Copa Airlines
-Croatia Airlines
-Egyptair
-Ethiopian Airlines
-EVA Air
-Germanwings
-Hawaiian Airlines
-Island Air
-LOT PolishIsrael)
-Lufthansa
-Scandinavian Airlines
-Shenzhen Airlines
-Silver Airways
-South African Airways
-Swiss International Airlines
-TAP Portugal
-THAI
-Turkish Airlines
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12 Comments On "LOT Polish Awards Bookable Once Again On United.com, Availability From NYC To Tel Aviv Is Excellent!"
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How do i piece together a stopover that’s longer than 24 hours? Do I need to PUTPAC?
would this be 45k in J JFK-WAW one way on aeroplan?
@Emkay:
You can try to do it via the multiple destinations option on United.com.
I.E.
Flight 1: JFK-WAW 01/12
Flight 2: WAW-TLV 01/15
Flight 3: TLV-JFK 01/22
Otherwise call.
Does united allow open jaws on 1 way awards?
@D93:
Officially open jaws and stopovers are only allowed on round-trips.
But YMMV when calling.
Sorry but Brussels airlines is bookable online at united.com
@Hamburg:
1st date I plugged into Aeroplan, November 10, has a nonstop Brussels award flight from BRU-TLV.
Please post a screenshot of United.com showing that.
@jrap: Yes. Though you’ll pay some YQ (not much)
Hi Dan,
Are you sure jet Airways from India is a United awards partner.
If yes please guide me on booking Jet flights with United miles.
@Paul:
Of course I’m sure.
As the post says, you need to call United to book.
i can attest to LOT 787 business class’s greatness, it’s nice, neat, clean and roomy, probably one of the best business class’s I’ve flown, the only downside is that they’re not single seats all with aisle access, but all 3 times I flew it, I had the seat next to me empty! it’s definitely the widest bed I’ve flown (I’ve flown business on United, Cathay (2 diff aircraft), Turkish (2 diff aircraft), Air China, Lufthansa, Singapore (old plane), Thai (3 diff aircraft), Swiss, Delta, American, plus more)
The KSML on flights out of Warsaw is terrible, boxed Stogel long life food, literally not Ro’uy L’achilas Kelev, out of NY it’s the same as most airlines, Borenstein IIRC
Dan, The one bad thing is they have long stopovers. If you’re going for a longer trip it’s not as big of a deal but you’re just going to Israel for a week to 10 days you’re wasting a lot time with the long connections. If you’re going with a long stopover it’s best to have all day so you can doing something in Warsaw. This doesn’t work out so well on the way there since you don’t land until midday.
I would prefer non-stop economy over business class with a long stopover. Dan probably disagrees with me on this one.