LOT Polish Airlines (LO, Warsaw Chopin) retired its sole B737-700 on August 12, 2020, following a near five-month-long grounding at Warsaw Chopin airport due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SP-LUA (msn 30651) was ferried from Warsaw, via Reykjavik Keflavik and Toronto Pearson, to Tucson Int'l for storage over the course of August 12-13, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. Its last revenue flight was from Amman Queen Alia on March 17, 2020.

The ex-Blue Air (Romania) aircraft briefly served with LOT between July 2019 and March 2020. It was added to compensate for LOT's grounded B737-8s, of which it operated five prior to their grounding in March 2019. Chief Executive Rafał Milczarski told ch-aviation last year that SP-LUA had been added as part of Boeing's compensation for the grounding of the MAX 8s.

Following the retirement of its B737-400s and the -700, LOT's narrowbody fleet consists of seven B737-800s and the five grounded MAX 8s.

The airline is proceeding with the registration of its...