Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have announced that they are expanding their UK footprint even further – by launching award-winning flights and holidays from Bournemouth Airport – which will become their 12th UK base airport.
The UK’s largest tour operator and third largest airline have today put 16 sunny destinations across Europe, the Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean on sale from Bournemouth Airport for Summer 25.
As well as responding to years of demand for award-winning flights and holidays from customers and independent travel agents across the region, today’s announcement significantly expands Jet2.com and Jet2holidays’ footprint.
This means that that holidaymakers and independent travel agents across even more of the South of England, including Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth and the wider region, can benefit from the companies’ leisure flights and ATOL protected package holidays. In addition they will have the opportunity to experience our industry-leading customer service that has earned the companies the prestigious accolade of Which? Travel Brand of the Year for the past two years running.
In their first summer of operations from BournemouthAirport, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate up to 27 weekly flights, including multiple weekly flights to popular destinations across the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Turkey and Greece as well as services to hotspots such as Mainland Spain, Portugal and Madeira (full list of destinations below). Two destinations (Fuerteventura and Madeira) are exclusive to Jet2 from Bournemouth Airport.
The inaugural flight from the airport will depart to Tenerife on 1st April 2025, and in Summer 25 two-based aircraft will fly holidaymakers from Bournemouth Airport on their package holidays with Jet2holidays and leisure flights with Jet2.com.
This latest expansion comes just days before Jet2.com and Jet2holidays starts operations from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, a move which has resulted in tremendous feedback and is expected to be replicated at Bournemouth Airport, based on the years of demand for Jet2 to start operations there.
From April 2025, customers travelling from BournemouthAirport will be able to experience and enjoy the VIP customer service which has seen Jet2.com and Jet2holidays continually grow its business whilst repeatedly winning high-profile accolades. These include Which? Travel Brand of the Year, Which? Recommended Provider and Tripadvisor’s Best Airline – UK and Top 10 Airlines of the World.
The Jet2 VIP customer service includes friendly flight times and a generous 22kg baggage allowance through a flight-only booking with Jet2.com. Customers also get that very same VIP customer service along with 2-5 star accommodation, in-resort Customer Helpers, transfers, free child places and ATOL protection through a package holiday booked with the UK’s largest tour operator, Jet2holidays.
Customers travelling from BournemouthAirport can book their Jet2holiday direct via the website or by phoning the customer friendly Contact Centre, or alternatively through an independent travel agent. The tour operator’s award-winning trade team will be working in partnership with independent travel agents across the region to ensure they have all the knowledge they need to sell Jet2holidays package holidays and grow their businesses. The first 1,000 bookings will receive free fast-track service through security at the airport when they travel from Bournemouth Airport.
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays’ arrival at BournemouthAirport represents significant investment for the region too. More than 100 new jobs will be created initially, with positions available across flight deck, cabin crew, engineering, and ground operations. To find out about joining the team, interested candidates can visit: https://www.jet2careers.com/
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays said: “We know that customers and independent travel agents have been asking us for a long time to make this move, so we are absolutely delighted to be announcing today that Bournemouth Airport will become our 12th UK base airport. As Which? Travel Brand of the Year, we know that our award-winning flights and holidays will be enormously popular across the region, and we cannot wait to show everyone what we are all about.”
He added: “This latest expansion is a further demonstration of our confidence, and it reflects our long-term strategy to be the UK’s leading and best leisure travel business. We know that customers want to be properly looked after throughout their holiday experience, and we are making a significant investment in the region including the creation of over 100 new jobs to do exactly that. From today, we are counting down to the start of operations from Bournemouth Airport when we can delight customers, just as we have with millions of other customers from across the UK for so many years.”
Andrew Bell, CEO of RCA, Regional and City Airports, who own Bournemouth Airport, said: “This is fantastic news for passengers and represents a huge vote of confidence in Bournemouth Airport by Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, by choosing Bournemouth as their new base airport in what is a major expansion of their operations into the south of England. It will create new employment locally, add 16 fabulous new destinations from Bournemouth, up to 27 extra flights a week and will see an estimated additional 300,000 passengers using their local airport.”
He added: “Together with our work on route development; our significant recent investments in new facilities, equipment and staff to build capacity; this exciting partnership with Jet2.com and Jet2holidays represents a step change in establishing Bournemouth Airport as a nationally significant regional hub for passenger air operations.”
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays’ Summer 25 Programme from Bournemouth Airport:
- Tenerife – up to three weekly services
- Fuerteventura – weekly services (Wednesdays) – exclusive from Bournemouth Airport.
- Gran Canaria – weekly services (Sundays)
- Lanzarote – up to two weekly services (Mondays, Fridays)
- Alicante – up to two weekly services (Tuesdays, Saturdays)
- Palma (Majorca) – up to four weekly services (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays)
- Ibiza – up to two weekly services (Thursdays, Sundays)
- Menorca – weekly services (Sundays)
- Antalya – up to two weekly services (Wednesdays, Saturdays)
- Dalaman – up to two weekly services (Thursdays, Sundays)
- Faro (Algarve) – up to two weekly services (Mondays, Fridays)
- Madeira – weekly services (Thursdays) – exclusive from Bournemouth Airport.
- Crete (Heraklion) – weekly services (Tuesdays)
- Corfu – weekly services (Wednesdays)
- Rhodes – weekly services (Tuesdays)
- Zante – weekly services (Thursdays)
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