Jet2.com and Jet2holidays celebrated the launch of Liverpool flights as it officially inaugurated its 11^th UK base airport - Liverpool John Lennon Airport.  It comes just days after it announced its 12^th UK base at Bournemouth Airport. The full flight from Liverpool John Lennon Airport departed to Tenerife last week. This inaugural flight was followed by another full Easter flight to Lanzarote. The first day of operations at the airport included a red-carpet welcome and personalised gifts. There was also a Beatles tribute band entertaining holidaymakers as they jetted off. One customer received a seven-night family holiday to Tenerife, while the first ten holidaymakers to check-in at the airport were given a pair of Jet2.com flight vouchers. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have a total of 20 destinations on sale for summer 2024 from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. There are Liverpool flights to Mainland Spain, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. The flying programme includes six destinations that are exclusive to Jet2.com and Jet2holidays - Gran Canaria, Menorca, Rhodes, Zante, Madeira and Bourgas (Bulgaria). The Liverpool flight programme represents 565,000 seats on sale and up to 54 weekly flights during peak periods. So far, the two companies report strong demand for flights and holidays from Liverpool John Lennon Airport John Irving, CEO Liverpool John Lennon Airport, said: "This is an important milestone as we welcome the first of many passengers jetting off on Jet2.com and Jet2holidays' departures.” 

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Jet2holidays is ramping up Bulgaria holidays for summer 2024, adding packages to the resort of Sozopol. With Bulgaria offering some of the most affordable holidays, the tour operator responded to demand. Sozopol hotels on sale range from 3 to 4-star and comprise bed and breakfast and all-inclusive. As well as sandy beaches holidaymakers visiting Sozopol can discover an old town of cobbled streets and terracotta topped houses. The Ropotamo Nature Reserve, the Blatoto Alepu National Parkand the Neptun Aqua Parkare within easy reach of the resort Bulgaria holidays to Sozopol with Jet2holidays can fly direct to Bourgas from nine UK airports including Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted and Manchester this summer. There will be up to 21 weekly flights operating to Bourgas during peak periods this summer. Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: “The addition of this charming resort comes in response to strong demand for getaways to Bulgaria.” 

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• UK’s largest tour operator announces £60 off all April and May 2024 holiday bookings made via an independent travel agent
• Offer means even bigger savings alongside existing promotion of £60 per person on ALL holidays

  Jet2holidays have put an extra spring in our steps after announcing a brand-new offer giving customers an additional £60 off per booking on all April and May 2024 holidays made via an independent travel agent.   The brand-new offer comes on top of the fantastic savings that are already up for grabs with the UK’s largest tour operator. Jet2holidays is currently giving customers £60 per person off all holidays made via an independent travel agent.   As a result of this new offer, which launches today, couples can save £180 if they book an April or May 24 holiday via an independent travel agent and solo travellers can save £120. A family of four can enjoy £300 off a Spring 24 getaway.   The offer applies to all holidays that are due to depart between 1^st April and 31^st May 2024. On top of this, Jet2holidays has millions of Free Child Places available which are combinable with this offer - https://www.jet2holidays.com/free-child-place-finder.   As well as enjoying savings on award-winning holidays this Spring, customers can choose from an unrivalled programme, with thousands of hotels available across a huge range of destinations across Europe, the Mediterranean and Canary Islands.   Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: “More and more people are wanting to get away to enjoy some sunshine early in the year, so we know this offer will really put an extra spring into their steps this Spring!  Thanks to an extra £60 off Jet2holidays bookings for April and May this year, we know that customers will be flocking to their local independent travel agent to book their place in the sunshine. We know that independent travel agents are seeing demand for Spring sunshine and we know this offer will strengthen that demand even further.”   If you are an independent travel agent and are interested in learning more about how you could benefit from working in partnership with Jet2holidays, please visit the company’s dedicated trade site: trade.jet2holidays.com

Jet2 is adding more Greek holiday capacity at Manchester Airport, with additional Santorini flights and holidays this summer. It comes just weeks after Jet2.com and Jet2holidays announced a significant expansion at Manchester Airport. There are new peak season Sunday services from Manchester Airport on sale to the popular Greek island, which run from 21 July to 1 September. It adds up to four weekly Santorini flights on sale during summer 2024. The flight capacity hike comes in response to strong demand for holidays to Greece this summer. In summer, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate to a total of 14 Greek destinations from Manchester Airport. Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: "Customers and travel agents in the region are telling us that flights and holidays to Greece are very much in demand.” 

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Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will continue expanding its Greek holiday programme as it operates its biggest ever flight and holiday schedule to Greece. It has been backed by a major joint-marketing campaign with Greek National Tourist Office (GNTO). This year’s programme represents over 100 routes on sale from across 11 UK airports Customers can choose from 20 Greek holiday destinations in 2024. As well as launching Symi and Athens Coast for summer 2024, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays companies will also launch seven brand new routes. These include Liverpool flights to Corfu, Heraklion, Kos, Rhodes and Zante, as well as Birmingham – Mytilene and Newcastle – Chania. The companies have over 1.52 million arriving seats on sale to Greece in 2024, a  12% capacity increase. This adds up to almost 320 weekly flights a week during peak periods. In total, Jet2 will operate to 14 Greek airports this year. Also, due to demand, more capacity is added in March and April to Crete (Heraklion), Corfu, Lesvos, Rhodes and Santorini. Jet2holidays offers 200 new hotels on sale in 2024 for Greek holidays. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays launched a major joint-marketing multi-channel campaign with long-standing partner, GNTO, a year ago. The partnership has been successful and Jet2 confirmed it will continue to invest in the promotion and expansion of its Greek holiday programme. 

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Jet2holidays has announced a brand-new summer 2024 booking incentive for travel agents. Jet2holidays is offering agents £10 for every Jet2holidays summer 2024 booking they make. The incentive has been designed to support travel agents during the peak booking period as customers rush to book following the January payday. It applies to all holidays booked due to travel between 1 April and 31 October 2024. The booking incentive runs until 31 January 2024. Jet2holidays is already offering customers £60 off per booking on all summer 2024 holidays made via an agent (excluding Free Child Place holidays), on top of £60 off per person on all holidays. It means couples can save £180 if they book a summer 2024 holiday with Jet2holidays via an agent and solo travellers can save £120. There are millions of seats and thousands of hotels available across destinations in Europe, the Mediterranean and Canary Islands.   Jet2holidays also has Free Child Place holidays available over the school holidays. Alan Cross, Director of Travel Agent Relationships at Jet2holidays, said: "We are expecting another rush of demand as January pay packets hit.” “We are delighted to be announcing this brand-new incentive to directly support our travel agent partners.”   

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Jet2holidays just added hundreds of thousands more free child place holidays. came ahead of an expected busy weekend for family holiday bookings. There are now hundreds of thousands more free child places across the 2024 school holidays, the company says. The package holiday specialist expects a surge in family holiday bookings. Jet2holidays’ summer 2024 is already selling well and is the company’s biggest ever. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have over 17 million seats on sale to 60 destinations for summer. As a result of this expanded programme, Jet2 will operate over 420 routes, including more than 50 that are new this year. These are from 11 UK airports. Destinations enjoying popularity right now include the Canaries, Balearics, Mainland Spain, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Malta and Bulgaria. To assist travel agents, Jet2holidays is running ‘Prepare2Peak’ a bespoke campaign which has been developed with independent travel agents and homeworkers. The targeted offer gives customers £60 per person off all Jet2holidays agent bookings. Jet2holidays is also running a trade competition giving travel agent partners the chance to win one of 100 places on a Destination Discovery with Jet2holidays. To be in with a chance of winning, all travel agent partners need to do is make a Jet2holidays booking by 29 February 2024. 

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Jet2holidays says it has seen record levels of demand for holidays through travel agent partners. From Boxing Day to last weekend, the tour operator saw agent bookings increase by around 150% compared to pre-Christmas. These include a high volume of forward bookings for summer 2024 as well as late bookings for this winter. The company has also reported traffic to its Travel Agent Finder page more than doubling in recent days. Destinations enjoying popularity include Spain, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Malta and Bulgaria. Also, Jet2holidays noted a trend for bookings of holidays outside of the traditional 7-, 10- and 14-night stays. There is continued strong demand from family holidays with free child places still available during the school holidays. All-Inclusive bookings have also been enjoying strong growth. This demand follows Jet2holidays announcing a brand-new ‘Prepare2Peak’ campaign, to help independent travel agents boost sales during the peak booking period. Travel agents can offer customers £60 per person off all Jet2holidays packages. “We are seeing record levels of demand via travel agents as customers lock in their holidays,” said CEO Steve Heapy.

Jet2 is bolstering its Manchester programme of flights and holidays for summer 2024.  It just announced added capacity to popular destinations across Spain, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy.  It has added more peak weekly departures from Manchester Airport to Lanzarote, Alicante, Bourgas, Bulgaria Corfu and more. This latest expansion comes in response increased demand across the North West for package holidays for next summer. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will now operate over 340 weekly flights during peak periods to 58 sun and city destinations from Manchester. It adds up to over 3.8 million seats on sale from Manchester Airport this summer and an increase of nearly 100,000 more seats compared to summer 2023. There are also extra Manchester flights to Chania and Heraklion, Crete, Kos, Sardinia and Reus. Steve Heapy, Jet2 CEO said: “We are seeing strong and sustained demand for summer across the board for flights and package holidays.” “We have reacted quickly to that demand by adding extra capacity to a host of sunshine favourites.”

Jet2holidays has launched a new hotel sustainability labelling scheme. It gives customers and independent travel agents more transparency when opting for a hotel based on its sustainability credentials. They are certified hotels which meet Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) standards. Hotels in the collection can be easily identified on the Jet2holidays direct and trade websites by a label identifying them as a 'Certified Sustainable Hotel'. In addition, the tour operator has also launched a brand-new 'Certified Sustainable Hotels' landing page where the entire collection can be viewed. Currently featuring over 800 hotels, the collection is at: www.jet2holidays.com/sustainable-hotels These standards are based on sustainable hotel management, social and economic support of the local community, promoting positive cultural impacts and environmental protection. GSTC manages the GSTC Criteria, known as global standards for sustainable travel and tourism. Jet2holidays became a member of the GSTC in September 2021. As part of a new Sustainable Hotel Charter which also launches today, Jet2holidays is supporting hotel partners to gain Foundation for Environmental Education's (FEE) Green Key certification. This is a GSTC-recognised standard for hotel sustainability. It adds to the company’s sustainability goals which has seen the firm order of 98 fuel efficient Airbus A320/A321 neo aircraft. Since January 2022, Jet.com has put a price on every tonne of carbon, not included with the UK and EU Emissions Trading Schemes, including free allowances, directly emitted by its flights. "We announced our new Sustainable Hotel Charter and agreement with Green Key, which means more hotels can adhere to GSTC-recognised standards too,” said CEO Steve Heapy. "We congratulate Jet2holidays for this initiative. The growing movement of hotels aligning with the GSTC Criteria reflects a powerful, irreversible trend," said Randy Durband, GSTC CEO.

Jet2holidays has rolled out a quartet of new package holiday destinations. Symi and the Athens Coast are added to the summer 2024 programme and are on sale. Porto and Pula package holidays are available for summer 2025. Athens Coast gives holidaymakers access to eight resorts – Glyfada, Vouliagmeni, Lagonissi, Anavyssos, Sounio, Vravrona, Mati and Marathon. Jet2holidays has a range of 3 to 4-star properties on sale across the region. Athens flights are available from Birmingham, Manchester and London Stansted. Jet2holidays’ second new Greek destination for Summer 2024 is Symi, just to the north of Rhodes.  Symi is part of the Dodecanese islands and is known for its beaches, harbour at Symi Town and colourful hillside houses. Customers can book their summer 2024 holidays to Symi via Rhodes from 11 UK airports. Jet2holidays now has over 100 routes on sale to 14 Greek airports from the UK. The tour operator has also introduced Porto to its Jet2CityBreaks programme for summer 2025. It will operate city breaks to Porto from Birmingham and Manchester Airports from 27 March to 9 November 2025 with up to two weekly services from both airports The fourth new destination is Pula on the Istrian Coast in Croatia. Flights and holidays to Pula are on sale for summer 2025 from three UK airports – Birmingham, Manchester and London Stansted. Jet2CityBreaks’ full programme for summer 2025 has also gone on sale from Birmingham, Glasgow, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle International and London Stansted Airports. It includes top city destinations Barcelona, Budapest, Krakow, Prague, Paris, Rome, Nice, Vienna and Venice. Steve Heapy, CEO, said: “These four new destinations are in direct response to the demand we are seeing from customers and travel agents.”

 

• UK’s leading leisure airline and largest tour operator put additional flights and holidays on sale to Majorca in April 2024
• Addition of new services from nine UK bases meanscom and Jet2holidays have provided customers with more choice and flexibility for next summer
• Comes in response to demand for Majorca 312 cycling sportive, as well as from holidaymakers looking to enjoy some early summer sun

  Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have responded to strong demand from cyclists wanting to participate in a major sporting event in one of the world’s best cycling destinations, by adding more flights and holidays to Majorca in April 2024.   Perfectly timed for Majorca 312, one of the biggest cycling sportives in the European calendar, the leading leisure airline and UK’s largest tour operator have put over 4,000 extra seats on sale to Majorca from 23^rd to 29^th April 2024.   The extra flights and holidays have been added from nine UK bases - Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle International and London Stansted Airports, offering cyclists plenty of choice and flexibility when it comes to experiencing the Majorca 312 event on 27^th April 2024 – as well as the Majorcan sunshine.   The move comes in response to strong demand from cyclists wanting to participate in the prestigious cycling event in Majorca, as well as a continued trend from holidaymakers looking to enjoy some early summer sun.   Attracting thousands of cyclists to the island of Majorca each spring, the event offers a choice of three traffic-free routes amid spectacular coastal and mountain scenery. Whether cyclists choose from the epic 312km ride or the shorter routes of 225km or 167km, Majorca 312 is a great way to enjoy this cyclists' paradise.   The new flights added to Majorca for Summer 24 are as follows:  

• Birmingham Airport – additional Sunday services on 28^th April 2024.
• Bristol Airport – extra Wednesday services on 24^th April 2024.
• East Midlands – new Tuesday and Wednesday services added on 23^rd and 24^th April 2024.
• Edinburgh Airport – additional Wednesday services on 24^th April 2024.
• Glasgow Airport - extra Wednesday services on 24^th April 2024.
• Leeds Bradford Airport – additional Monday services on 29^th April 2024.
• Manchester Airport – new Thursday and Sunday services added on 25^th and 28^th April 2024.
• Newcastle International Airport – extra Thursday and Sunday services added on 25^th and 28^th April 2024.
• London Stansted Airport – additional Monday and Friday services on 26^th and 29^th April 2024.

  Majorca is widely known as one of the world’s best cycling destinations thanks to its warm climate, clear roads and steep but remarkable routes. Combined with vibrant coastal resorts and a distinctly cosmopolitan capital, holidaymakers can enjoy the mix of exciting cycling routes and the laid-back holiday atmosphere.   Customers looking to participate in Majorca 312 and enjoy a cycling holiday next summer can choose from a flight-only option with Jet2.com or a package holiday with Jet2holidays (https://www.jet2holidays.com/cycling-holidays). Flights with Jet2.com include the award-winning airline’s VIP customer service, friendly flight times and a generous 22kg baggage allowance.   When booking a cycling holiday with Jet2holidays, customers also get that very same VIP customer service, hand-picked hotels with cycling facilities, the option to add on great-value, pre-booked 32kg bike carriage to a booking, alongside bike transfers to and from the hotel. There is even free bike carriage for groups, which means one in every four bikes go free for groups of over ten people or more.   Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: “We are seeing strong demand from cycling enthusiasts wanting to participate in the Majorca 312 event and enjoy a cycling holiday, as well as from those looking for some early summer sun. For this reason, we have added extra capacity to the popular destination in April and given our customers exactly what they want. Given our cycling proposition and popularity of the Majorca 312 event, we are confident that these additional flights and holidays will prove popular for both cyclists and those seeking some early summer sun.”