Launching a package holiday business helped Jet2.com grow year-on-year passenger figures flying out on May 1 by 58% compared with the same day in 2006.
The low cost airline had its busiest start to summer trading ever and expects to carry more than 4m customers in the current financial year.
The Leeds Bradford Airport-based company said the launch of its unique package holiday business Jet2holidays.com had boosted trading.
Jet2holidays.com general manager Mandy Round said: “May 1 was the day we officially started taking customers on holidays packaged together using our own low cost flights.
“The take-up for our packaged holidays has been fantastic and has contributed to such a strong start to summer trading – the sales growth is even more remarkable at a time when there has been such a huge amount of consolidation in the package tour sector.”
By Bev Fearis
