Jet2 Provides New Liverpool Base With 4 Based mostly Boeing 737-800s

Jet2 will open a brand-new base at Liverpool subsequent summer time, its eleventh within the UK and fourth in northern England. With 4 Boeing 737-800s, 20 locations might be served, of which seven should not linked by different carriers in summer time 2023. It raises questions in regards to the aggressive response of incumbent airways, particularly easyJet, which might be its major competitor.

Jet2 to begin new Liverpool base

It can kick off on March twenty eighth, just a few days earlier than airways within the Northern Hemisphere swap to summer time schedules. That day, Jet2’s first Liverpool flight is predicted to depart at 08:00 for Tenerife South. Come the height month of August, Jet2 plans 43 weekly departures from Liverpool.

Whereas issues could change as easyJet and Ryanair’s summer time 2024 schedules should not but obtainable, Jet2 may have no direct competitors to Burgas, Gran Canaria, Maderia, Menorca, Paphos, Rhodes, or Zakynthos. All besides Madeira have been beforehand served from Liverpool, some as just lately as 2021.

Near Manchester

Liverpool is lower than an hour’s drive to Manchester, Jet2’s largest base. In fact, the leisure service is used to bases being positioned shut collectively: Leeds Bradford is fairly near Manchester, likewise East Midlands and Birmingham.

By now, Manchester has grown to such a level for Jet2 that it should certainly not be overly nervous about cannibalizing it from Liverpool. As anticipated, all 20 locations are already served by Jet2 from Manchester.

10 locations in Spain, Portugal

Come August 2024, Jet2 may have 33 weekly departures from Liverpool to the next perennially well-liked locations. Whereas not a good comparability, easyJet and Ryanair have 62 weekly in the identical week in 2023.

10 in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey

Burgas was very briefly served by Wizz Air in 2021, the 12 months badly impacted by coronavirus. In keeping with UK CAA information, it carried 2,802 roundtrip passengers. Given the pandemic and no vacation division, it solely achieved a 56% load issue, however Jet2 will undoubtedly carry out significantly higher.

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