5 September 2024
Jet2 plc ("the Group" or "the
Company")
Annual General Meeting
Statement
Summer 2024 on sale seat capacity at
17.17m seats is 12.4% higher than Summer 2023 and a slight increase
on that reported at the time of our Preliminary Results on 11
July.
The months of July and August
experienced strong late booking momentum with September currently
showing a similar trend. As a result, average load factor is now
1.2ppts behind Summer 2023 at the same point (11 July 2024: 1.8ppts
behind). Booked to date Package Holiday customers are up by 8%,
representing 70.2% of total departing passengers, with Flight-Only
passengers increasing by 17%. The continued demand momentum has
served to offset softer flight-only net ticket yields, although
package holiday pricing remains resilient and continues to show a
modest increase on last year.
Winter 2024/25 forward bookings are
encouraging with average load factor 0.8ppts ahead of Winter
2023/24 at the same point, against a 15.0% seat capacity increase
to 5.14m seats. The package holiday mix is currently up by 1.9ppts
with pricing at this early stage showing a modest increase for both
our holiday products.
Year to date the business continues
to trade in line with management's expectations. However, given the
late booking profile, the remaining summer months of September and
October not yet complete, plus the majority of Winter 2024/25 seat
capacity still to sell, it remains premature to provide definitive
guidance as to Group profitability for the financial year ending 31
March 2025. Consequently, we will provide a further update at the
interim results on 21 November 2024.
Looking forward, we continue to
believe that Package Holidays are
the Right Product for Price Conscious
Customers. Our ability to offer a
wide choice of quality product and the flexibility of truly
variable duration holidays, makes it easy for our Customers to
conveniently tailor their holiday plans to suit their individual
budgets. Furthermore, all our Customers benefit from our commitment
to quality reflected in our high trust ratings on Which?,
TripAdvisor and Trustpilot, plus our recognition as the leading
airline and holiday company on the UK Customer Satisfaction Index
(UKCSI).
Summer 2025 is already on sale with
growth in seat capacity of approximately 6.4% and average load
factor at this very early stage slightly ahead of Summer 2024 at
the same point.
For the long term our strategy
remains consistent - To be the
UK's Leading and Best Leisure Travel Business - underpinned
by our firm delivery stream of 146 Airbus A321neo through to 2035
which enables us to confidently plan for the future and with
'People, Service, Profits'
serving as our guiding principles.
For further information please
contact:
Jet2 plc
Steve Heapy, Chief Executive
Officer
Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial
Officer
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0113 239 7692
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Cavendish Capital Markets
Limited
Nominated Adviser
Katy Birkin
Camilla Hume
George Lawson
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020 7220 0500
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Canaccord Genuity
Joint Broker
Adam James
Harry Rees
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020 7523 8000
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Jefferies International
Limited
Joint Broker
Ed Matthews
Jee Lee
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020 7029 8000
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Burson Buchanan
Financial PR
Richard Oldworth
Toto Berger
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020 7466 5000
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Notes to Editors
Jet2 plc
is a Leisure Travel Group, comprising Jet2holidays, the UK's
leading provider of ATOL protected package holidays to leisure
destinations across the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and European
Leisure Cities and Jet2.com, the UK's third largest
airline by number of passengers flown, which specialises in
scheduled holiday flights. In its most recent financial year ended
31 March 2024, over 68% of flown passengers took an end-to-end
package holiday with the remainder taking a flight-only.
Jet2
currently operates from 11 UK airport bases at
Belfast International, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool John Lennon,
Manchester, Newcastle and London Stansted. A 12th UK
base at Bournemouth airport will commence operations in February
2025.