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Jet2 is gearing up for its flight launch from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, which is just three months away.  The airline and tour operator will start operating Liverpool flights and holidays in exactly three months, debuting with a flight to Tenerife. To mark the special occasion, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have promised ‘exciting plans’ at the airport for their first day. The airline and tour operator have put 20 sunshine destinations on sale for summer 2024 from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. It includes six destinations that are exclusive to Jet2. The companies report high demand from customers and have already announced an even bigger programme for summer 2025. CEO Steve Heapy said: "Bookings have remained consistently strong since launch, and the feedback has left us in no doubt that making this move was the right one.” “We are incredibly excited about opening this latest chapter in our continued growth story." In their first summer of operations Jet2.com will operate up to 54 weekly Liverpool flights, including 12 weekly flights to both the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. A fleet of four based aircraft will fly customers to Mainland Spain, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Portugal, Madeira and Cyprus. Overall, the company's first summer of operations from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, represents 565,000 seats on sale.

Jet2 announced a significant expansion of its Italy flight and package holiday programmes. It adds up to thousands of extra seats on sale to Sardinia, Sicily and Verona across summer 2024 and 2025 spurred by customer demand. Jet2 has added capacity from eight UK airports on the three Italy routes. There are more flights and holidays during popular periods, such as late summer 2024 and Easter 2025. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have extended the summer 2024 season through to mid-November by adding a number of flights to Sicily from Manchester and London Stansted. For Summer 25, more April flights have been also put on sale to Sicily from Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and London Stansted for Easter. For late summer 2025, additional November flights have also been added from Birmingham, Manchester and London Stansted. Additionally, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have added more September, October and November flights for late-summer 2024 It has also extended the summer 2025 season to Sardinia. More capacity was also added for Verona from Edinburgh, East Midlands, Leeds Bradford and Newcastle International Airports. Overall, there are an extra 20,000 outbound seats on sale.

Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks have kicked off their biggest ever Christmas Markets programme. It began with the first dedicated trips of the winter 2023/24 season from Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted and Newcastle airports. Flights departed for Vienna, Copenhagen, Berlin and Budapest. In addition to operating to these destinations, Jet2 has Christmas markets flights and city breaks on sale to Cologne, Prague and Krakow this winter. Christmas markets destinations are available from across ten UK airports. This year marks the first time for scheduled Christmas market services from Bristol and London Stansted airports. The programme features eight new routes - Birmingham to Cologne, Bristol to Prague, Bristol to Vienna, Edinburgh to Vienna, Edinburgh to Prague, Leeds Bradford to Copenhagen, London Stansted to Prague and London Stansted to Vienna. Customers booking a Christmas markets getaway, can choose from a flight-only option with Jet2.com or an ATOL protected package holiday with Jet2CityBreaks. Steve Heapy, CEO, said: “We are delighted to see the first of our dedicated Christmas market trips take off.” “The size and scale of the programme means holidaymakers have plenty of choice and flexibility.”

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have announced another big expansion for 2024, with more late summer flights and holidays on sale. They have added more flight and holiday capacity to mainland Spain, the Canaries, the Balearics, Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, and Greece. It adds up to almost 70,000 extra seats for summer 2024 from eight UK airports. Destinations include Lanzarote, Dubrovnik, Fuerteventura, Heraklion (Crete), Ibiza, Kalamata, Costa de Almeria, Gran Canaria, Menorca and Palma. The additional flights are between late September and early November 2024. They are for departures from Belfast International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Newcastle airports. CEO Steve Heapy said: “We are seeing strong and sustained demand for next summer  across the board, with the late summer season proving very popular.” “We have reacted quickly to that demand by adding extra capacity.”

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have signed a formal agreement to invest in the development of Moroccan tourism for the next five years. It comes after announcing scheduled flights and holidays to Morocco for the first time. The partnership agreement was officially signed by CEO Steve Heapy and Adel El Fakir, the CEO of the Moroccan National Tourism Office (MNTO) at WTM London. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will cooperate with the MNTO to help drive Morocco tourism growth in the country through a joint-marketing campaign commencing next year. The online and offline campaign will showcase the tourism offerings for holidaymakers and travel agents across the UK. As well as working together on joint-marketing campaigns, Jet2 and MNTO will hold meetings during the long-term agreement to evaluate and review the partnership. Jet2 will operate year-round to two destinations in Morocco – Agadir and Marrakech with flights and holidays on sale for winter 2024/25 and summer 2025. Jet2 will operate up to 17 weekly flights to Morocco from six UK airports, with over 180,000 departing seats on sale. Flights operate to Marrakech from four UK airports -  Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and London Stansted and to Agadir from six UK airports.

 Jet2.com has officially opened a multi-million-pound Retail Operations Centre. This is the first centre of its kind in the UK aviation industry, and gives the company control of its most critical in-flight retail operations. During Summer 22, airlines faced supplier disruption affecting in-flight retail services. It took the decision to take back control over in-flight retail operations as well as drive growth. The 150,000 square feet facility is located in Middlewich, Cheshire. It will act as a centre for Jet2.com to stock, manage and distribute millions of in-flight retail products for customers. Products include drinks and non-perishable food that can either be pre-ordered or feature in the airline’s in-flight menu. The centre also handles products for sale from the onboard shop, such as fragrances, beauty products, gifts and duty-free. The Retail Operations Centre is a first for UK aviation, as no other airline has taken its in-flight retail operations in-house like this. During a typical year, it estimates more than 25 million items will pass through the centre. Each day, items are stored, picked and loaded onto thousands of bar carts. Each bar cart is securely screened within six minutes by passing through Cart X-Ray Scanners that have been installed at the centre. Bar carts are then distributed to Jet2.com’s UK airport bases. The Retail Operations Centre complies with relevant regulations and approved by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The Centre has created 300 new jobs across warehouse operations, security and inventory control. Jet2 promoted John Davis to the new position of Director of Retail to lead this area of the business.

Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks have put their Christmas Markets programme on sale earlier than ever for winter 2024/25. Available to book now, seven festive destinations are bookable from ten UK airports next winter. The programme comprises Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, Copenhagen, Krakow, Prague and Vienna. Christmas markets flights depart from airports such as Belfast International, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, and London Stansted. The programme is on sale more than two months earlier than usual due to strong demand. The programme represents over 160,000 seats on sale. Thanks to convenient flight timings, festive holidays can be weekend, long-weekend or mid-week trips. Customers booking a Christmas Markets getaway can choose from a flight-only or a festive package holiday with Jet2CityBreaks available for £60 per person deposit. Packages include return flights with Jet2.com including 22kg baggage, and a choice of 2-5 star hotels in central locations.

Jet2.com has expanded its ski flights programme for its biggest ski destination – Geneva The airline has added more Geneva flights on the back of strong demand from skiers and snowboarders. It added more flights from Leeds Bradford and Manchester Airports this coming winter. It adds up to 34 weekly ski flights to Geneva from nine UK airports during winter 2023/24. The expansion from Leeds Bradford and Manchester means customers can now choose from up to eight weekly flights from each airport, boosting choice with mid-week and long weekend options. Geneva offers access to top ski resorts across the Swiss and French Alps. It unlocks ski holidays in Tignes, Flaine, Verbier and Zermatt as well as the Three Valleys including Meribel and Val Thorens on a single ski pass. The expansion of ski flights puts 190,000 seats on sale between the UK and Geneva this winter. Geneva flights are also available from London Stansted, Birmingham, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Glasgow and Newcastle. In addition, skiers and snowboarders travelling to eight ski destinations this winter, including Geneva with Jet2.com also get 50% off return ski carriage for a limited time. The offer applies for new bookings by 25 September 2023 for travel between 1 November 2023 and 30 April 2024. It is available for all Jet2.com ski flight destinations - Chambery, Geneva, Grenoble, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Lyon, Turin and Barcelona (for Andorra).

Jet2 has cancelled all further Skiathos flights and holidays up to and including Tuesday 12 September. The holiday island has been hit hard by severe flooding stranding hundreds of holidaymakers. Torrential rains have turned roads into rivers, cutting off some areas. The Foreign Office updated its travel advice for Greece with an extreme weather warning. Cars were washed away in fast moving storm waters and holidaymakers have been evacuated. “We are continuing to closely monitor the weather conditions,” Jet2 said. “We believe (cancelling) is the right thing to do in terms of allowing the island and its population to quickly return to normal.” “We will be contacting affected customers with regards to their refund and rebooking options.” Jet2 said it will fly empty to Skiathos to bring customers back to the UK. “We will review this closely and may put on additional aircraft to fly customers home if required.” “Our absolute focus is on doing everything we can to look after everyone.” Some holidaymakers reportedly remain trapped on upper floors of hotels without power and running water. At least two people have died and several are unaccounted for. Greek authorities said the rains from Storm Daniel were the heaviest since records began Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cited climate change as a factor for the floods as well as the recent wildfires. He gave a dire warning. "I am afraid that the carefree summers, as we knew them… will cease to exist.” In some parts of Greece, a year's worth of rain fell in a single day.

Jet2 has again expanded its 2024 programme of summer flights and holidays. It includes three new routes. Jet2 add more Birmingham flights with routes to Tivat (Montenegro) and Lesvos. There will also be a new route to Verona from Glasgow Airport. That means Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate over 400 routes from 11 UK airports in summer 2024. It amounts to over 17 million seats on sale in total. Birmingham flights to Tivat in Montenegro will run from 2 May through 31 October next summer. A weekly Thursday service will operate from 2 May, with a second weekly service (Monday) effective from 1 July. Jet2 also operates flights to Tivat from Manchester and London Stansted in summer 2024. Tivat is the gateway to resorts including Budva, Becici and Kotor Bay. The second new Birmingham flight route is Greece’s third largest island Lesvos. Flights up to twice weekly run from 26 May to 6 October. Glasgow Airport also gets a new route to Verona. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays continue to experience high demand for summer 2024 flights and holidays.

Jet2 has flown 20 flights to the UK from Rhodes so far this week – both scheduled services and repatriation flights. It continues to fly empty aircraft to bring Rhodes holidaymakers back to the UK. As already announced, all Jet2 flights and holidays to Rhodes remain cancelled up to and including Sunday 30 July. Affected customers have been contacted to give them refund and rebooking options. The company updated customers due to travel to Rhodes from Monday. For Rhodes holidays  booked in the north of the island, all hotels, villas, and resorts are operating as normal. Customers due to travel to accommodation in Afandou, Faliraki, Ialyssos, Ixia, Kalithea, Kolymbia, Kremasti, Pastida, Rhodes Town and Theologos can do so without worry. From Monday 31 July, operations in the wildfire affected areas of Lardos, Lindos, Kalathos and Pefkos will be back to normal and customers can enjoy their booked Rhodes holidays. Jet2 customer service and risk and safety experts have inspected all properties in these areas. However, resorts and hotels in Gennadi, Kiotari and Lachania remain off limits until 14 August. Jet2 is contacting impacted customers to arrange an alternative or process full refunds.

Jet2 is bracing for its busiest weekend ever. Over 170,000 customers will travel with Jet2.com and Jet2holidays this Saturday  and Sunday. It will operate more than 800 flights in total over the weekend, to and from over 60 destinations in the Mediterranean and Canary Islands. On Saturday alone, it has 450 flights. Jet2 says Majorca, Tenerife and Faro are the three most popular destinations this weekend. The Balearics, Canaries, Mainland Spain, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta are also popular with holidaymakers. This year, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays put on its biggest ever summer programme, with 15.5 million seats on sale. That is a capacity increase of over 7% compared to summer 2022. CEO Steve Heapy said: “This marks the beginning of the peak summer season, so this time of year is traditionally always a busy time for us.” “However, this demand combined with our continued growth means that this year we will have a record-breaking weekend”