There’s a lot to love about summer. The weather’s better and the light sticks around past 4pm, but the most exciting thing about summer is getting to go on a nice long holiday. Everything is better when you’ve got a trip booked, and Jet2 has just announced that the airline giving you more options for where that next trip will take you.
Last November, Jet2 announced that it would begin flying from London Luton airport from this summer, and although it only landed in Luton earlier this month, the budget-friendly carrier has already got plans to expand services from the airport. Next year, Jet2 will launch routes between the Bedfordshire base to Menorca in Spain, and Corfu, Kos, Preveza, and Skiathos in Greece. This will make Jet2 the only airline to fly from Luton to the latter two spots.
All of this will also come with increased capacity to the provider’s most popular destinations including Crete, Rhodes, Zante, Majorca, Fuerteventura and Antalya. Not too shabby, eh?
So when exactly will you be able to board? Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait. These flights will not be taking off until May next year. The first to launch will be the Menorca route on May 5, followed by the Greek flights debuting between May 21 and 24.
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2, has said that adding seats on existing routes as well as adding new ones ‘gives holidaymakers exactly what they want – more choice and flexibility’. Meanwhile, a spokesperson from Luton airport said that it is ‘thrilled to see this continued investment from Jet2’.
This comes soon after Jet2 was crowned the best short-haul airline by Which?, so it’s been a pretty good few months for the carrier. Let’s hope they keep heading onwards and upwards, and we keep getting more and more options for our summer getaways.
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