Budget airline launches Belfast-Tenerife service
Budget airline Jet2 is launching the first low-cost scheduled service between Northern Ireland and the Canaries, it announced today.
The twice-weekly flights between Belfast International Airport and Tenerife begin in October and are planned to run all year round.
It is the first low-cost air link between the island of Ireland and the Canary Isles and tickets have gone on sale with prices starting at £55.50 (€81) one way including taxes.
The airline already flies to Tenerife from its base at Leeds Bradford Airport, Newcastle and Blackpool, and commercial director Steve Lee said Northern Ireland travellers had been desperate for them to launch a service from there as well.
“We have been inundated with requests from both the general public and travel trade to start scheduled flights to Tenerife so, as is our nature, we simple have to give the people what they wanted.”
Flights will operate on Thursdays and Saturdays.
They offer the possibility for Northern Irish travellers to use Tenerife for long weekend breaks, something which has never previouslybeen possible from the region.
Since the airline first entered the market with flights to Leeds, it has extended its service to include the popular holiday spots of Barcelona, Prague, Pisa and Murcia.
The airline also announced today that following the success of its winter flights to Blackpool it was adding more flights and making it a daily service for the summer season.
The new Tenerife route is the latest in an explosion of destinations launched by the budget airlines from Belfast in the last couple of years.
