Jet2 Expands Operations to Bournemouth Airport, Bringing 16 New Destinations and Job Opportunities

Jet2 airline, the package holiday operator, have announced their intention to start flying from Bournemouth Airport next year, in a move that will create 100 new jobs.

The low-cost airline will fly passengers from Bournemouth Airport to 16 destinations starting from April 2025.

Destinations will include Spain, including the Canary Islands, Greece, and Turkey.

The UK’s largest tour operator and third-largest airline has today put 16 sunny destinations across Europe, the Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean on sale from Bournemouth Airport for Summer 2025.

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. See the full list below.

Two destinations - Fuerteventura and Madeira - are exclusive to Jet2 from Bournemouth Airport.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays’ summer 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)

More than 100 new jobs will be created initially, with positions available across flight deck, cabin crew, engineering, and ground operations.

Leeds Bradford-based airline Jet2 joins existing Bournemouth Airport airline operators TUI and Ryanair.

Earlier this year, Ryanair announced it would be flying planes to a new continent for Bournemouth Airport: Agadir on the southwest coast of Morocco, Africa.

Bosses at the airport are expecting to welcome more than a million passengers through its terminal this year - a number it last hit 15 years ago in 2008.

As part of the anticipated growth, airport owners Regional and City Airports will be pumping more than £5m into new facilities, equipment, staff, and training.

Bournemouth Airport has said passengers will notice several improvements over the coming months as part of the investment programme.

These include an upgraded security search area with new scanning kit to relax the restriction on liquids and the need to take electronics out of bags when the works are complete.

There will be a new airport information desk, improved baggage screening, an extra baggage retrieval area in the arrivals terminal, more Border Force desks in arrivals, and improved queuing systems for passenger handling in both departures and arrivals.