The brand has put 3.5 million seats on sale to 39 winter sun, city break and ski destinations, an increase of more than 160,000 or 5%. The programme also includes more flights and extended season lengths in popular destinations.
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays’ first winter programme to Antalya will operate from Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted.
It also includes the first winter programme to Madeira from Belfast International as part of a 17% capacity increase there, plus new flights to Nice and Larnaca from Stansted. Also introduced are flights to Rome from Newcastle and more capacity at Manchester and Birmingham.
One third of Jet2.com’s capacity will go to the Canary Islands, with 1.2 million seats to Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, a 5% increase. There are also 60,000 additional seats to city breaks – a 12% increase -, with more flights and breaks to Budapest, Prague, Rome, Vienna, Krakow and Nice.
Flights to seven winter sports destinations are also on sale, with more services to Grenoble and Turin, significant growth to Salzburg from Birmingham and Edinburgh, plus those to Geneva, Lyon, Turin, Verona and Barcelona for Andorra.
Jet2holidays recently knocked Thomas Cook off the number two spot in the league of largest Atol-holders after a wave of expansion in 2017.
Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said: “The announcement of our biggest ever winter programme shows the confidence that we have in our award-winning airline and package holiday offering.
“We have more seats and holidays than ever to a range of fantastic sun, city and ski destinations, meaning that our Winter 18/19 programme has something for everyone.
“With Britons continuing to look to get away on their well-deserved holidays, particularly during the long British winter, we are stepping in to meet that demand by putting on more seats to provide more choice and flexibility than ever.”
