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Jet2 chair warns inflation and economy may hit selling prices

Operators
Gary Noakes
9 August 2022

Jet2 has warned inflation and the UK’s uncertain economic outlook will impact selling prices in the coming months.

Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said the 2023 October half-term period is proving to be an "extremely popular time” for families to take a holiday

The carrier will deploy an extra aircraft at the base to support the expansion

Writing in the company’s annual report, executive chairman Philip Meeson said both factors “lead us to conclude that in the medium-term prices are likely to come under some pressure”.

However, he said the package holiday was “a higher yielding, resilient and popular product in difficult economic times, and the Mediterranean and Canary Islands are evergreen destinations where people absolutely want to go”.

He added: “The control of our own seat supply and our frequency of flying allow us to offer truly variable duration holidays, critical in allowing our customers the ability to flex their holiday arrangements to suit their individual budgets.”