Jet2holidays G-JZHM - Boeing 737-8MG at Manchester Airport, England, UK - Top rated British tour operator, by WHICH magazine
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5472 x 2748 px | 46.3 x 23.3 cm | 18.2 x 9.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
18 February 2023Location:
Manchester, England, UK, M90 1QXMore information:
Jet2holidays is a British package holiday provider and tour operator. It was formed in 2007 as a subsidiary of Dart Group PLC (now renamed Jet2 PLC), and a sister to Jet2.com, the third-largest scheduled airline in the UK.[1] As of 2018, Jet2holidays is the second-largest tour operator in the United Kingdom, by ATOL licenses granted.[2][3] History Jet2holidays was founded in June 2007. Upon launch, Jet2holidays provided package holidays from Jet2.com’s six bases in Leeds, Manchester, Belfast, Newcastle, Blackpool and Edinburgh. It began operations at East Midlands Airport in May 2010[4] and announced an expansion to Glasgow Airport later that year.[5] In 2014, Blackpool Airport closed, taking the company back down to seven bases.[6] By March 2015, Jet2holidays was providing package holidays to one million customers per year.[7] The following month, it created Jet2CityBreaks, a subsidiary specialising in shorter holidays to its city destinations.[8] In April 2017, Jet2holidays became available from nine bases after the company announced an expansion to Birmingham Airport and London Stansted Airport. On 7 June 2017, Jet2holidays launched Jet2Villas, expanding its portfolio of self-catered package holidays.[9] Later that month, it celebrated ten years of operation, and had sold over seven million package holidays.[10] In October 2017, when Monarch Airlines ceased operations, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays added over 650, 000 seats from former Monarch airports, leading to Jet2holidays overtaking Thomas Cook Tour Operations to become the second-largest tour operator in the UK