LOT Polish to open its first U.S. lounge in Chicago this week

LOT Polish, Poland’s flag-carrier airline, is opening its first lounge outside its home country. The LOT Business Lounge at Chicago’s O’Hare airport promises to be a much-needed addition to Terminal 5 at the world’s second-busiest airport by aircraft movements. It will open this week and can be accessed by passengers on a variety of airlines, not just LOT. The 6,600-square-foot lounge will open to the public on December 19, 2024. It makes sense that LOT should choose Chicago O’Hare (ORD) for its first international lounge, since the Polish community in the Chicago metropolitan area numbers around 1.5m people — a huge source of demand for travel to Poland. That’s why LOT flies to both Warsaw (WAW) and Krakow (KRK) from O’Hare using Boeing 787s. LOT said in a statement on its website that the lounge will be located in Terminal 5, past security and next to the dining area. It was built by the same construction firm that built the United Club lounge at ORD.<br/>