British airline Jet2.com has announced a new direct flight to Liverpool from Alicante-Elche airport starting in March 2024 which is expected to bring more than 20,000 passengers to the Costa Blanca.
The announcement was made on the occasion of the company’s twentieth anniversary in Alicante. Starting next year, Jet2.com will open a base in Liverpool and plans flights to eight destinations across Spain. It is not the first direct flight between the province and Liverpool, but it is the first connection by Jet2, offering up to four weekly services (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday)
The new Liverpool base Will also fly to Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. “The total number of arrival seats offered between Liverpool and these 8 destinations will be almost 148,000,” the airline said. Alicante would be the third airport with the largest number of seats from this new base, behind the Canary Islands (70,000) and the Balearic Islands (56,000).
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, commented: ”This launch confirms our long-term strategy to continue growing in the UK and in Spain and its islands. This is great news for our clients but also for local institutions, as it will allow us to continue creating jobs in the tourism sector. ” Jet2holidays is the second largest tour operator in the United Kingdom, offering complete holiday packages that unite Jet2.com flights and a wide range of hotels from 2 to 5 stars, as well as transfers to and from the destination airport.
For this summer the routes offered between the United Kingdom by Jet2, from Alicante, will be 10: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and London-Stansted.
The total number of seats arriving at Alicante-Elche will be more than 420,000, with a peak of 70 flights per week.
Steve Heapy confirmed that “we started flying to Alicante in 2003 offering only one route. Twenty years and millions of passengers later, we are delighted to be able to celebrate this anniversary together with our tourism partners in the Region, without whom none of this would have been possible.”
