LOT Polish Airlines was a result of his government's policy. He also accused the previous Civic Platform government of leading the airline to either bankruptcy or "accelerated privatisation". In August 2018, the Croatian government proposed that LOT take over their national airline, Croatia Airlines. The Romanian national airline, TAROM, is also interested in cooperation or merger with LOT. Polish Airlines LOT has a dense European network in addition to flights in Asia, the Middle East and North America. LOT Polish Airlines codeshares with the following airlines: As of December 2018, the LOT Polish Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft: • On 8
Airline codes has been in place for 20 years. The codes issued to date comply with IATA Resolution 762, which provides for only two characters. These codes thus comply with the current airline designator standard, but use only a limited subset of its possible range. There are three types of designator: unique, numeric/alpha and controlled duplicate. IATA airline designators are used to identify an airline for commercial purposes in reservations, timetables, tickets, tariffs, air waybills and in telecommunications. A flight designator is the concatenation of the airline designator, xx(a), and the numeric flight number, n(n)(n)(n), plus an optional one-letter "operational suffix" (a).