Jet2 adds more routes from Stansted

Sunday, 21 Dec, 2016 0

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have added four new routes, extra capacity and more aircraft from its newest base at Stansted – before flights have even commenced operating.

The company said ‘phenomenal customer demand for flights and holidays’ from Stansted has led to the decision to expand.

Jet2’s first flights from Stansted are due to launch on March 30 2017, with the addition of four new routes starting in July: Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman and Split, making a total of 96 weekly flights to 25 destinations next summer.  

In total, including winter 2017/18, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate 27 destinations from Stansted, with an additional aircraft, bringing the total number of planes based at Stansted to seven.

The new flights will operate twice weekly during summer 2017.

In addition, one extra weekly flight has been added to each of the already-announced Jet2 Stansted routes Majorca, Menorca and Crete and two flights have been added to Zante, creating four flights each week to each destination.

In total, the new routes and additional flights represent the addition of over 65,000 extra seats, taking the total number of seats on sale from Stansted to over 875,000, a capacity increase of 8%.

Jet2 CEO Steve Heapy said there had been a ‘phenomenal reaction’ to its Stansted programme.

The news comes as Jet2.com celebrates being the only UK airline to be awarded Which? Recommended Provider  status following its success in this year’s Which? Travel Airlines Survey.



 

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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.



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