Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate from London Luton Airport from summer 2025, offering flights and packages to 17 destinations.
Luton will be Jet2’s 13th base, and operations start on 1 April, with the first flight departing to Majorca.
Jet2 said its move to Luton follows strong demand from customers and independent agents in London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
Around 430,000 seats will go on sale, with up to 36 weekly flights, including multiple weekly services to the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, mainland Spain, Portugal and Turkey as well as weekly services to Greece, Italy and Madeira.
Three destinations, Girona, Madeira and Verona are exclusive from the airport base.
Flights will operate to three destinations in mainland Spain, with up to four weekly services to Alicante, Sunday flights to Girona and up to two flights a week to Reus.
In the Canary Islands, Jet2 will operate up to three weekly services to Tenerife, up to two a week to Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, and Sunday flights to Fuerteventura. In the Balearics, up to two weekly services will operate to Ibiza and up to six a week to Majorca.
Portugal will be served by up to four weekly flights to Faro and Monday flights to Madeira, which is an exclusive destination from Luton.
Jet2 will operate weekly flights to Crete (Heraklion), Rhodes and Zante in Greece, and up to two weekly flights to Antalya and Dalaman in Turkey.
Finally, there will be an exclusive weekly Wednesday service to Verona in Italy from Luton.
CEO Steve Heapy said: “We are very excited to announce London Luton Airport as our 13th UK airport base today, further expanding our footprint and bringing our award-winning holidays and flights to even more customers. Customers and independent travel agents have been asking us to open at London Luton Airport for many years now, so we know how enormously popular this announcement will be. We have seen time and time again how popular our product is when we bring it to new customers.
“This latest expansion reflects our strategy to be the UK’s leading and best leisure travel business and it underlines the confidence we have in our leisure travel product offering.”
Luton Airport Chief Executive Alberto Martin said: “The arrival of Jet2 is fantastic news for the millions of passengers who choose to fly from the airport each year and marks a major expansion of Jet2’s operations in the south of England.”
