USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


I must remember to try using the BA lounge in T5 in Heathrow next time with my Miles and More card from LOT. I wonder how long it'll take them to stop laughing at me.

Still, nice to see Johnny repeatedly prove that he has no idea about how lounges work in airports.

Anyway, given the constant delays on LOT, I'd avoid them when travelling to Poland unless the final destination is one that can't be easily reached, such as Szczecin or Rzeszów.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

Yes, it's very obvious by Johnny's claim that LOT passengers can use the AF-KLM lounge that he simply googled which lounge was closest to the gate that he thinks LOT use.

It really helps if one has even a basic understanding of flying before attempting to lie about it.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

Clearly you've never flown anywhere if you think that Business class passengers on Star Alliance get free entry to Sky Team lounges.

It's ok, I understand that you've never been in a lounge before. You've also made another claim that proves you know nothing about those lounges, but you can work that one out for yourself.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

Johnny, if you're going to lie, at least lie properly.

The Air France-KLM lounge isn't accessible for people flying with LOT, as AF-KLM belong to SkyTeam and LOT belongs to Star Alliance.

It's safe to say that if you can't even lie correctly about lounges, the rest of your post is likely to be a fantasy.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

No worries, I thought the website was too strange to be the official website. Then again, have you seen the official O'Hare website? It's not much better!

So what we have here is Johnny using an unofficial website to justify his claim. Needless to say, it's obvious that he's never been near O'Hare in his life.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


That's not even the official website of O'Hare. It's just a random website on the internet that Johnny found to try and prove his point.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


One issue with LOT is their lounge access at O'Hare - unless it's changed recently, they were only offering access to the crappy lounges that you can enter by paying $30 on the door, even if you were flying Business with them.

I still wish LOT on domestic flights would do something about the appalling slowness of the turnarounds. They seem to take forever to board the Dash-8's, even on very very short sectors.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


Don't invent phone calls, for a start.

Still, according to the website he posted - Terminal 5 is also the Aer Lingus terminal as well as many others. So, it's clearly not the LOT terminal, not least because LOT only fly once or twice a day from there.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


I like them, but the baggage restrictions and the need to take a bus to/from the terminal winds me up every time. I don't think I've managed yet to take a flight that wasn't delayed in some way with them.

I'm fond of LOT's Embraer's though, and I wish they'd get more to use on domestic flights.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

I've never been into the non-Schengen part, though I see they were extending the exit controls last time I was there. I'll have a look again in a couple of weeks when I have to transit through Okęcie on a domestic connection (going to Rzeszów, much quicker to fly), though the endless hassle with the Dash-8's on internal flights really annoys the hell out of me.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

That's the first time I've ever heard anyone referring to a corridor as a terminal, unless you're speaking about some of the airports Ryanair used to fly to back in the day.


I'd avoid LOT at all costs, they've got horrendous problems with delays.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

Doesn't mean that it's their own terminal.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

So in fact, what we have here is an admission that LOT at ORD:

a) do not have their own terminal
b) do not have their own gates

I thought so.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


Do they even have their own gates? I've been in transit through Okecię a few times and never seen any logic to the gate allocations.

As for LOT in Chicago.

flyertalk.com/forum/midwest/987960-chicago-o-hare-terminal-5-intl-terminal.html

Posts 18/19. LOL. Don't even have their own gates at ORD, let alone their own terminal.

USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]


I wonder why LOT would need their own terminal for one or two flights a day.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Glad to see that you're back, Polly.

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]

Are you denying that Poland has one of Europe's most liberal immigration policies?

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]

Very much so. There are no limits on immigration, student visas/residence permits are easy to come by and cheap, and with so many multinational companies here now, it's easy to find work.

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]

Poland isn't standing up to the EU at all. It's all hot air, nothing more.

As for "hordes of third world immigrants", Poland has one of Europe's most liberal immigration policies.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


As the West was a threat in those times. If the West had been as it is today, Pilsudski would have been first to ally with the West, no doubt recognising the huge advantages that a political, economic and military alliance could offer against the Russian menace.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Indeed, his grand hope was for something similar to Austria-Hungary. The European Union would have been a logical extension of that, not least because it would have allowed all people to live in prosperity and for nations to thrive.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Exactly. The geopolitical reality means that Poland has two choices - to look West, or to look East. PiS are now talking about 'enhanced cooperation' with Belarus, which tells us exactly what they intend. Anyone that's actually been to Belarus can see that it's a miserable dump of a place, with sour faces everywhere and very little to be joyful about.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


It's an easy concept to hate. I can't see any way for Poland to ever coexist with Russia, and the two great pan-Slavic experiments of the 20th century failed miserably.

Even anyone that visits Slovakia can see how Slovakia is similar, yet different.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


That's a wonderful quote, and describes Russians perfectly.


Without a shadow of a doubt. He would have clearly identified the European Union as a safety net against the two great powers, and the ability to tie up Germany economically without sacrificing the Polish identity would have been a huge thing for him.

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]


There are apparently a lot of parallels between these MLM businesses and self-declared Christians in the US. I can't find the article now, but it's the similarity in religious language and the fact that many of these "independent business owners" are stay at home women that makes them such easy targets.

This isn't the exact article, but it points to how many of these companies were founded by Christians as they had an easy source of "business owners" - christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/december/divine-rise-of-multilevel-marketing-christians-mlm.html

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Not really. Had that bomb gone off, it would have killed for certain, and maimed quite a few others.

Don't try and downplay it. The guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm would also have caused a horrific death toll had he succeeded.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Strange that you would ignore the bus attack by a Korwin-Mikke lover.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


I seem to remember that one issue is that reporting rates are much lower in Poland, so whereas someone in Sweden would be quick to report an assault, in Poland, the same victim would face all sorts of issues with reporting it, especially if it's at the hands of the spouse.

Of course, we shouldn't ignore the issues elsewhere - I'm very much in favour of a "zero tolerance" approach to non-EU citizens and crime. Having said that, the majority of the trouble caused by darker-skinned people in PL seems to be Italians and Spanish guys molesting Polish women rather than Arabs or otherwise.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


There's no sense in buying a new car in PL outright, because leasing deals are so damned competitive. My friend got a new leased Lexus for 4 years, with a 40,000km yearly limit, no deposit and payments are only 1% of the cost of the car monthly. They cover everything except fuel, so there's zero point in owning a car if you have a business, especially as the tax system is so friendly towards leased cars.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


The lunatic who tried to blow up a bus in Wrocław, the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm, etc etc.

Right wing terrorism is a real danger in Poland, even to the point where other European intelligence agencies consider the Polish far right as potential terrorists.