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JET2COM and Jet2holidays will base a further aircraft at Glasgow Airport and launch two new routes as part of the airline’s summer 2019 plans.

The announcement marks another hugely expanded summer programme from Jet2.com’s Glasgow base - the biggest in Scotland - and demonstrates the airline’s continued commitment to the airport.

As part of a busy summer 2019 schedule Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will introduce two weekly services to Kos and Naples, taking the airline’s total number of sun and city destinations from Glasgow to 33. The airline will also introduce an additional 90,000 seats across its Glasgow Airport-based destination network.

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Birmingham unveiled as UK base for Jet2

JET2.COM and Jet2holidays have announced Birmingham as their eighth UK base. 

They will launch 15 destinations for summer 2017 from the airport – Alicante, Crete, Faro, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Majorca, Malaga, Menorca, Paphos, Reus, Rhodes, and Tenerife.

Flights to Alicante, Faro and Majorca will be daily and the first will take off on March 30 to Faro and Malaga.

Alan Cross, head of trade for Jet2holidays, said Birmingham’s summer programme would also be extended into the winter 2017/18 period.

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Travel firms scrap credit card fees

JET2HOLIDAYS and north-east travel agency chain Dawson & Sanderson have scrapped credit card fees.

Jet2holidays and Jet2.com have dropped credit card charges on all flights and holiday bookings, having previously charged 2.5%, while Dawson & Sanderson, which has 20 branches, had charged 2.25%.

Jet2 says that no other airline or tour operator has made the change, and that it is doing it ‘to make booking a holiday or a flight as friendly, convenient, and competitively priced as possible’.

Dawson & Sanderson says the credit card surcharge was unethical and penalized many of its customers. It has ditched the surcharge on all credit card payments except for American Express and business credit cards.

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RYANAIR has announced the launch of its summer 2016 schedule from Leeds Bradford Airport, offering 20 routes including to Lanzarote, Malaga, and Venice. The airline has also announced increased flight frequencies across four routes to meet passenger demand. Ryanair will now provide more flights to Alicante (increased to six weekly), Gdansk (increased to four weekly), Palma (daily), and Pisa (twice weekly). 

AER LINGUS REGIONAL is to offer flights from to Cork, Ireland, to Southampton Airport from March 2016. There will be up to five flights per week between Cork and Southampton, and they will be operated by Stobart Air.

JET2HOLIDAYS is to begin rolling out an in-hotel flight check-in service after a trial indicated it would influence which hotels customers select in the future. The service gives holidaymakers the opportunity to take their passport to their hotel reception and check in for their flight home before leaving for the airport. Members of the hotel’s reception staff print tags for their customers’ suitcases which are delivered to the airport separately. The tour operator began the trial at 10 hotels in Benidorm in April and it has seen a 90% take up. The service will be extended to Alicante this winter.

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Jet2 axes Tunisia sales

JET2.COM and Jet2holidays has stopped selling flights and holidays to #Tunisia for the remainder of this year and summer 2016. Customers of the low-cost airline will have their flight bookings cancelled and their payments refunded.

Consumers with Jet2holidays can change their bookings without an amendment fee, according to the operator.

‘We have been pro-actively calling all our passengers to discuss their options,’ a spokeswoman said.

‘We currently have no Jet2.com and Jet2holidays customers in Tunisia. The last remaining passengers have returned. In light of this cancellation we have added more flights and holidays to our popular destinations to ensure we are offering the best possible choice of holidays.’

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JET2.COM and Jet2holidays have confirmed they will launch additional flights to Alicante from three UK airports. 

A total of 42 extra flights will be available to the Costa Blanca from Glasgow, Leeds, and Manchester, providing 7,000 additional seats. The flights will operate between September 30 and November 16.

The companies are also launching a winter programme to Majorca for next year from Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, and Manchester Airports. Flights will start on February 11.

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Jet2.com and Jet2holidays land in Malta

JET2.COM and Jet2holidays have landed in #Malta for the first time. Jet2.com, whose first aircraft arrived from Newcastle, will also be operating low fare flights from East Midlands, Manchester, Leeds Bradford, and Glasgow airports.

‘The addition of #Jet2.com and #Jet2holidays summer programme enhances Malta’s offering to its biggest tourism market, the United Kingdom,’ said Malta International Airport CEO, Alan Borg. ‘We look forward to welcoming many new passengers this year.’

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