LOT Polish Airlines has restored direct scheduled flights between Warsaw and Bangkok after an absence of more than 26 years, reopening one of the Polish carrier’s historic Asian routes. The inaugural service departed Warsaw Chopin Airport on 7 October, with Boeing 787 Dreamliners now connecting the Polish and Thai capitals directly.
Flight LO65 takes around 10 hours and 20 minutes from Warsaw to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. The return journey takes approximately 11 hours and 15 minutes, according to LOT’s latest schedule announcement.
The route initially operates three times a week. Until 25 October, flights leave Warsaw at 3:45 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, while return services depart Bangkok at 9:05 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
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The frequency will rise as LOT enters its winter schedule. The airline’s latest announcement says Warsaw departures will increase to five a week during the transition at the end of October and then to six flights a week from 2 November, operating every day except Friday. Return flights from Bangkok will also operate six times weekly, every day except Saturday.
That represents an increase from LOT’s original plan. When tickets went on sale in December 2025, the airline announced five weekly winter services, but the schedule has since been expanded.
A route returning after more than two decades
LOT’s scheduled Warsaw–Bangkok service was suspended in 2000. A Polish government response to parliament from that year said the airline had decided to close the route after years of losses and an internal LOT–Swissair review concluded that available cost reductions would not make the service commercially viable. The final remaining flights were scheduled to end in May 2000.
That makes the October 2026 launch the return of regular service after more than 26 years.
LOT says the route’s history dates back to the late 1970s, when Bangkok was one of the carrier’s earliest long-haul destinations in Asia. The original services used Ilyushin Il-62 aircraft and included stops in Dubai and Mumbai before the later introduction of Boeing 767s made nonstop operations possible.
The modern route is operated by LOT’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet and flies nonstop to Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok’s main international airport.
Thailand becomes easier to reach from Poland
For Polish travellers, the most immediate change is the removal of the need to connect through another European, Middle Eastern or Asian hub on the way to Bangkok.
Thailand has become an increasingly important long-haul tourism market for Poland. The Tourism Authority of Thailand has described Poland as one of its rising European source markets and worked with LOT and Polish travel companies ahead of the launch to promote the new connection.
Bangkok also functions as a gateway to other parts of Thailand and Southeast Asia, making the route potentially useful beyond passengers whose final destination is the Thai capital.
LOT chief commercial officer Robert Ludera said the connection would strengthen the airline’s presence in Asia while also reinforcing Warsaw’s role as a transfer hub for passengers travelling between Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
The route fits a wider expansion of LOT’s long-haul network, which already includes direct services from Poland to destinations in the United States, Canada, India, Japan and South Korea.
Six flights a week during winter
The higher winter frequency will make Bangkok one of LOT’s more substantial Asian services.
From 2 November, Warsaw departures are scheduled for six days each week, with only Friday excluded. Flights will leave Warsaw at 2:45 p.m., while services from Bangkok will depart at 9:05 a.m. every day except Saturday.
LOT currently plans to reduce the route to three weekly flights for the summer 2027 season, running from 28 March to 28 October.
The Bangkok connection is being sold as a year-round route, rather than a one-off charter programme. That is an important distinction from the various leisure charters that have linked Poland with Thailand during the years since LOT withdrew its previous scheduled service.
For LOT, the return to Bangkok also illustrates how the economics of long-haul aviation have changed since 2000. The airline withdrew from the route at a time when its own analysis found that revenues were not covering operating costs. Twenty-six years later, it is returning with more efficient Boeing 787 aircraft, a larger Warsaw transfer network and growing demand for travel between Central Europe and Asia.
The first flight therefore marks more than the addition of another destination to LOT’s timetable: it restores a direct aviation link between Poland and Thailand that had been absent for more than a quarter of a century.
