Jet2.com and Jet2holidays are launching flights from Bournemouth Airport, which will become their twelfth base in the United Kingdom. The UK’s largest tour operator and third largest airline will begin selling 16 destinations across Europe, the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean from Bournemouth Airport for the 2025 summer season.
Passengers from areas in the south of England, such as Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth and the wider region, will have a wide range of leisure destinations. In the first year of operations to Bernemouth, Jet2.com will have a schedule of up to 27 weekly flights, including services to the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, mainland Spain, Turkey, Greece and Portugal.
The leisure airline will have services to Alicante, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife-South, Antalya, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Zakynthos, Fuerteventura and Funchal, the latter two destinations being exclusive to Jet2.com from Bournemouth Airport.
Operations will commence on April 1, 2025, with an inaugural service to Tenerife, Bournemouth is the leisure airline’s latest expansion into the U.K. after opening base at Liverpool John Lenon Airport.
«This is fantastic news for passengers and represents a huge vote of confidence in Bournemouth Airport by Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, choosing Bournemouth as their new base airport in what is a major expansion of their operations in the south of England. It will create new local jobs, add 16 great new destinations from Bournemouth, up to 27 more flights a week and an estimated 300,000 additional passengers using their local airport,» said Andrew Bell, CEO of RCA, Regional and City Airports, which owns Bournemouth Airport.
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