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Check-in for flights operated by LOT Polish Airlines (flight numbers LO001-3999*) is open:

  • 2 hours before scheduled departure time at Polish airports (except Warsaw) and other short haul airports in Europe, Middle East and North Africa; 
  • 3 hours before scheduled departure time in case of flights from USA, Canada, China and other long haul destinations;
  • 23 hours before scheduled departure time for flights departing from Warsaw to any LOT Polish Airlines destination,as well as from the below mentioned airports: Stockholm (ARN), Copenhagen (CPH), Dusseldorf (DUS), Munich (MUC), Frankfurt (FRA), Geneva (GVA).

The check-in closure deadline must be always taken into account as well the possibility of extended time for security control.

Check-in closing time:
Airport of departureDestinationCheck-in closing time
Poland: Warsaw short haul flights (Schengen) 30 minutes
Poland: Bydgoszcz, Cracow, Gdansk, Katowice, Lublin, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, Wroclaw, Zielona Gora domestic flights, short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East and to North Africa 30 minutes
Europe: Barcelona, Belgrade, Bucharest (LOT Business Class), Budapest, Cluj-Napocca (LOT Business Class), Copenhagen, Hamburg, Kaliningrad, Kosice, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Pula, Riga, Sofia, Split, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Venice, Vienna (LOT Business Class) Vilnius, Zadar, Zagreb short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East and to North Africa, long haul flights to North America and Asia 30 minutes
Europe: Geneva, Milan short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East and to North Africa,long haul flights to North America and Asia 35 minutes
Poland: Warsaw short haul flights (Non-Schengen) 40 minutes
Middle East: Tbilisi, Yerevan Europe: Amsterdam, Brussles, Chisinau, Cluj-Napocca (LOT Economy Class), Dusseldorf,  Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kaliningrad, Kharkiv, Kiev Borispol, Kiev Zhulyany, Lviv, Madrid, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Odessa, Palanga, St Petersburg, Zurich, Larnaca short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East and to North Africa,long haul flights to North America and Asia  40 minutes
Europe: Bucharest (LOT Economy Class), London, Vienna (LOT Economy Class) short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East and to North Africa,long haul flights to North America and Asia 45 minutes
Middle East:Tel Aviv short haul flights to Europe, to the Middle East 60 minutes
North America: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York - JFK, New York - Newark, Toronto long haul flightsto Europe 60 minutes
Asia: Astana, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo long haul flightsto Europe 60 minutes
Polska: Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Cracow, Gdansk, Katowice, Lublin, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, Wroclaw, Zielona Gora long haul flights to North America and Asia 60 minutes

The purpose of check-in deadlines is to guarantee that flights can depart on time. Before this deadline passenger must be in possession of boarding pass, even if  he/she has already checked-in online or by mobile phone or SMS, and  must have checked in his/her baggage.

Having in mind possible infrastructure’s difficulties at some airports, please consider extended waiting time for security control.

Passengers with reduced mobility using mobility equipment are kindly requested to consider extended time at the airport required to proceed the security control by both passengers and equipment.

We encourage you to check-in online from some airports 36 hours prior to departure:

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*If you hold a LOT Polish Airlines ticket for flight operated by one of our partners (flight numbers LO 4000-6999),  please contact the operating carrier in order to receive the detailed information regarding check-in opening and closing times.