East Midlands: Jet2 Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[Ray Finkle]

New route for Jet2 to Paris-CDG, 4x weekly from April 2014.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Jet 2 to expand East Midlands services


Author - Rob Gill - 12 Sep 2013

UK airline Jet 2 is to add four new routes from East Midlands airport for summer 2014.

The no-frills carrier, which is based at Leeds Bradford airport, will add new services from East Midlands to Jersey, Spain and Greece from May next year.

Jet 2 will fly once per week to Fuerteventura in the Canary islands, Reus on the Spanish mainland, the Greek island of Kos and Jersey.

The airline has already announced that it will operate an East Midlands-Paris Charles de Gaulle service four times per week from April 3, 2014.

http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/news/12 ... s-services

 

[Aviador]

Does anybody know how many aircraft will be based at EMA summer 2014?

 

[tleeds]

I flew with Jet2 from East Midlands for a short Malaga trip, starting last Thursday and returning last Sunday. Overall it was a great trip! They have quite a nice set-up down there at EMA; easy, clean, not too busy. Service was great and flew on the original old bird G-CELS both ways. Outbound was easy enough, early morning departure, plane about 75 people on-board so near enough 50%. G-CELS had a delay coming back however and they boarded us onto the plane and left us waiting 2hrs 20mins sat on the ground. The captain explained that something must have hit the 'flap casing' (?) on arrival on the runway and that a part, he described as something we didn't actually need, needed to be removed, but a couple of other parts had to be removed first. Travelling on my own, and sat in 1D I could see and hear everything that was going on, I didn't mind the delay and just read the Daily Mail (tragic I know).

The stewardess' did their best but some people were rather quite rude and aggressive towards them. Understandably for families with young children, they were restless and the temperature on the aircraft was sweltering. They came round with as much water as they could source but I really don't understand why something can't be done about this rule. The captain explained that Malaga airport were unwilling to allow us back into the terminal and so had to stick on the airbridge. I can understand the captain possibly wanting to keep everyone on the aircraft so when the mechanics were done we could go straight away when a slot was allocated, but it really was unfair on the families, I don't know whether it's an industry standard rule or Jet2s or Malaga/Aena airports but it was uncomfortable to be sat for 5 hours..

Overall I wasn't too fussed about the delay and accepted it but Jet2 had a lot of angry passengers, even more so when they ran out of sandwiches at peak lunch time..! Only 1 free seat returning as well..

 

[Aviador]

I think Malaga airport got itself in a bit of bother a few weeks ago when an aircraft had apparently departed without a sizable number of passengers, yet their luggage still managed to travel. I'm not 100% sure but that's probably why they wouldn't allow you all to go back into the terminal at that point.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Pula added for summer 2015 on Sunday mornings from May.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Jersey and Pula look to have been removed for next year along with Murcia and Paris. Malaga and Palma seem to have small increases and there's a new route to Enfidha every Wednesday from May.

 

[Galaxy]

I'm surprised nothing more has been said about today's incident. Which aircraft was it?

 

[GeorgeBlackadder]

Boeing 737 G-GDFT

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I'm surprised nothing more has been said about today's incident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29058223

An interesting read.

 

[Aviador]

British holidaymakers on Jet2 flight caught in hijack scare

A bit of a worry if the pilot in question didn't know the equipment he was using was for a hijack situation?

 

[LBA787]

EMA operational based fleet for summer 16;

733 - 2
738 - 4


A total of 6 a/c


:crazy:

 

[Ray Finkle]

NEOS 738 I-NEOW looks to be operating for Jet2, it's on approach from ACE.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I'm not up on Jet2 at EMA so I hope that this is correct.

S17 sees new routes to Girona, Naples and Split and CDG makes a return.

Up to 7 based aircraft so I'm assuming there will be increases elsewhere?

 

[Aviador]

Girona has been performing badly of late and I think it's running at about -16% down so far as year on year passenger traffic goes so clearly Girona will be keen on establishing itself again.

 

[Paulsstrange]

Jet 2.

Increasing flights from East Midlands Winter 16/17.

No exact details but confirmed elsewhere.

 

[Ray Finkle]

New winter routes to Grenoble and Salzburg.

http://www.nottinghampost.com/east-...destinations/story-29453565-detail/story.html

 

[Ray Finkle]

Not sure if this has been reported but S17 sees new weekly routes to Almeria and Thessaloniki.

East Midlands – Almeria eff 02MAY17 1 weekly
East Midlands – Thessaloniki eff 25MAY17 1 weekly

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38...pdate-jet2-s17-new-routes/?platform=hootsuite

 

[Ray Finkle]

On sale now! Summer 18 from East Midlands

Holidaymakers travelling out of East Midlands Airport have more chance than ever to grab some sunshine, as our Summer 18 programme is now on sale.

From today we have more flights and holidays than ever to 32 beach and city destinations, with 920,000 seats and thousands of 2-5 star hotels available.

The destinations include:

• Costa de Almeria – recently introduced for Summer 17, this hotspot is already seeing expansion, with an extra flight taking the number of weekly services to two
• Dalaman, Corfu and Zante - now two services per week
• Split - now two services per week
• Verona – additional capacity due to larger aircraft
• Dubrovnik – extra capacity due to extended seasons

Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays said: “This is a huge summer programme yet again from East Midlands Airport, with 920,000 seats and thousands of hotels through our award-winning airline and holiday operator.”

Andy Cliffe Manager Director East Midlands Airport said: “Today’s news that Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have announced their summer 2018 programme with even more flights is fantastic. Jet2.com has a great customer service ethos, which mirrors our own. The airline is incredibly popular with people in the region, bringing with it growth in both passenger numbers and destinations served.”

Key summer 2018 programme information:



East Midlands

• 32 destinations
• Almost 200 weekly flights and 920,000 seats available for the biggest holiday operator at East Midlands
• More flights and more seats to Corfu, Dalaman, Costa de Almeria, Split and Zante.

http://www.jet2.com/News/On_sale_now_Summer_18_from_East_Midlands/

 

[Britannia94]

Could be wrong but It would appear that Paris CDG isn't bookable for 2018. I knew they announced it for 2017 but can't seem to find it at all ok there website. Has the flight actually gone ahead or been canned before it took off for this year?