If you like to plan your holidays well in advance (we’re talking two whole years in advance), listen up. Jet2 has announced its lineup of flights for summer 2026, which it says is its ‘best yet’. There will be 700,000 more tickets available than summer 2025 and 22 brand new routes.
Among those brand new offerings, five will be taking off from a northern airport recently crowned one of Britain’s best and the best small air hub in the world. In a little less than two years, travellers will be able to catch new flights from Newcastle Airport to Barcelona, Porto, Agadir and Marrakech in Morocco and Preveza in Greece.
Steve Heapy, Jet2’s CEO, said: ‘Customers are telling us they want to book ahead and secure that all-important holiday, so they can have the best choice of hotels, rooms and dates.
‘We have responded to the strong demand from holidaymakers wanting to lock in their getaways, by putting our biggest and best Summer programme on sale for 2026, earlier than ever before.
‘Our summer 26 programme represents a huge expansion with more seats and routes on sale, meaning holidaymakers have never had so much choice and flexibility.’
You can book the 2026 flights as part of a package through Jet2Holidays, Jet2Villas or Jet2CityBreaks. And the best part: by the time your trip comes around, it will basically feel like a free getaway (#girlmaths). Find all the options on Jet2’s website here.
Eyes on the skies
Those aren’t the only new routes taking off in the next couple of years. Did you see that Leeds-Bradford is getting its first ever long-haul flights? And a bunch of new routes are running from Birmingham. There’s also been new affordable flights from Edinburgh to New York and the return of direct flights from the UK to this beautiful Caribbean island.
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