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 the section below). IATA expanded the 2-letter-system with codes consisting of a letter and a digit (or vice versa) after ICAO had introduced its current 3-letter-system in 1982. Until then only combinations of letters were used. Airline designator codes follow the format xx(a), i.e., two alphanumeric characters (letters or digits) followed by an optional letter. Although the IATA standard provides for three-character airline designators, IATA has not used the optional third character in any assigned code. This is because some legacy computer systems, especially the "central reservations systems", have failed to comply with the standard, notwithstanding the fact that it