Jet2.com opens new base at British Bournemouth airport and announces flights to Madeira and Faro

In the case of Madeira, Jet2.com will operate one flight per week, on Thursdays, while for Faro, up to two flights per week are planned, on Mondays and Fridays, from the new Bournemouth base, which opens on summer 2025.

Jet2.com announced the opening of a new base at the British airport in Bournemouth, the airline’s 12th in the United Kingdom, which will feature new routes for the carrier to Madeira and Faro in the summer of 2025, according to the TravelWeekly.

Tickets for the routes that Jet2 will operate from Bournemouth went on sale this Tuesday, March 26th and, in addition to Madeira and Faro, include a further 14 destinations in Europe, the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean.

Jet2.com will operate 27 flights per week from Bournemoubth, with emphasis on Madeira and Fuerteventura, in the Canaries, which are the two exclusive routes that Jet2 will operate from its new base.

In the case of Madeira, Jet2.com will operate one flight per week, on Thursdays, while up to two flights per week are planned for Faro, on Mondays and Fridays.

The airline will base two planes in Bournemouth, a location in the south of England where the tourist industry has long demanded a greater number of flights and whose new Jet2 base begins operating on April 1, on the Tenerife route. .

“We know that customers and independent travel agents have been asking us for a long time to make this change, so we are absolutely delighted to announce today that Bournemouth Airport will become our 12th base airport in the UK,” said Steve Heapy , chief executive of Jet2.

Travel Weekly recalls that the news of the opening of the new base in Bournemouth comes with just a few days to go before the air carrier begins operations at the new base in Liverpool, which also has flights to Portugal, as Jet2 will also start connecting the John Lennon Airport to Madeira and Faro.

Flights from Jet2.com’s new base in Liverpool begin on March 28, 2024 and include one exclusive connection per week to Madeira and four weekly flights to Faro, Algarve.

In addition to Madeira and Faro, Jet2.com will also open routes to Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Alicante, Palma, Ibiza, Menorca, Antalya, Dalaman, Crete, Corfu, Rhodes and Zante from the new Bournemouth base.

By Publituris