The Spanish destinations presented through Jet2 will arrive with Alicante, Gran Canaria and Palma de Mallorca
Airline and excursion operator Jet2 will offer flights and holiday packages from Bournemouth Airport from next year.
The 16 new routes will start in April 2025 and will serve tourist destinations in Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Greece.
It comes after the airport said it expects to see its passenger numbers since 2008 this year.
Ryanair inaugurated a second aircraft in 2023 and TUI also plans to add a second aircraft later in 2024, with an additional 60,000 seats available.
Jet2 has announced that it will have two bases in Bournemouth, serving Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Alicante, Palma (Mallorca), Ibiza, Menorca, Antalya, Dalaman, Faro, Madeira, Crete (Heraklion), Corfu, Rhodes and Zakynthos.
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Jet2 said more than 100 jobs would be created at Bournemouth
It will operate up to 27 weekly flights in the summer. The first will depart for Tenerife on April 1, 2025.
More than 100 new jobs will initially be created, with positions available on the flight deck, cabin crew, engineering and surface operations, the company said.
Chief executive Steve Heapy said consumers and agents had been urging Jet2 to operate out of Bournemouth – its 12th base in the UK – for some time and that he predicted the flights would be “hugely popular in the region”.
Bournemouth Airport is investing more than £5 million in new facilities and staff to cope with the expected increase in passenger numbers.
Planned innovations include an enhanced security search area, with new scanning devices to ease liquid restrictions and the need to remove electronic devices from bags.
A new data desk is also being built, as well as more advanced baggage screening and another baggage claim area.
Commercial passenger flights from the airport ended the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, and Ryanair resumed flights in December of the same year.
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