Lord Ahmad made the visit to the company’s headquarters in Leeds and met, among others, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays chief executive Steve Heapy, Jet2.com managing director Phil Ward and Jet2.com and Jet2holidays commercial director Steve Lee.
As well as being given a tour of the company’s training facility, the lord was also briefed on plans to launch two new UK bases in spring 2017, London Stansted and Birmingham, and the addition of 34 brand new Boeing 737-800NG aircraft to the company’s fleet.
The airline and operator will employ 7,200 people this summer while in the last financial year, it flew 6 million passengers to 67 destinations in 20 countries.
Heapy said: “With two new bases about to launch in the UK as well as brand new aircraft and a rapidly expanding team, it is an incredibly exciting time for Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, and we were delighted to share our plans with Lord Ahmad.
“As well as demonstrating our success and commitment to delivering the best experience for our customers, we had a positive and wide-ranging discussion with the minister about a number of important issues affecting our industry.”
Ahmad added: “I am delighted to have been able to visit Jet2.com, and particularly to have met the next generation of engineers, pilots and cabin crew at the airline’s dedicated training facility, seeing first-hand what goes in to their award-winning customer services.”
