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Nuria Montes urges Aena to urgently launch the Alicante-Elche Airport Master Plan

 

 

The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism has attended the event celebrating the 20th anniversary of Jet2holidays.

Nuria Montes has held a meeting with the tour operator to, among other things, outline the joint promotion strategy aimed at the British market for next year 2024.

The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism, Nuria Montes, has urged Aena, on behalf of the Valencian Government, to "launch, as a matter of urgency, the Alicante-Elche Airport Master Plan".

 

This is what Nuria Montes said during the event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the presence of the Jet2holidays company at the Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández airport, where she attended together with representatives of the tour operator.

 

The Minister of Tourism has taken advantage of the visit of Jet2 representatives to hold a meeting with the tour operator to, among other things, outline the joint promotion strategy aimed at the British market for next year 2024, and has recalled that " the British market is the most important international market in terms of the number of tourists traveling to the Valencian Community".

 

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the arrival of Jet2 in the province of Alicante, Montes wanted to emphasize that "these years have been tremendously productive", since, according to the head of Tourism, "from a residual tour operator that started the its first steps 20 years ago, it is now the UK's number 1 tour operator to Spain, and it is a core and essential market in its business model”.

 

In addition, he insisted that Jet2's commitment to the Alicante-Elche airport "was decisive from the start, due to the fact that it installed one of its first aircraft bases in this airport and has important expansion plans for the coming years".

 

Thus, he pointed out that, as he was informed by the tour operator, "its fleet will grow, it will double the number of aircraft it currently has in operation until 2030", and he noted that this growth will take place "increasingly a whole strategy regarding the sustainability of their planes, so that they can use biofuels and, in addition, reduce the use of kerosene by more than 25%".

 

In this sense, Nuria Montes has emphasized that "this sustainability strategy extends to all its suppliers, among which are the hotel sector and the transport sector".

 

For his part, the CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, Steve Heapy, pointed out that, "being close to the end of the year, we thought it was a very good time to celebrate our 20th anniversary here in Alicante ". In addition, he emphasized that "Jet2.com's offer will continue to grow in both winter and summer".

 

In addition, Heapy recalled that "Jet2holidays is already the most important British tour operator in the region", and added that "all this is only possible thanks to the close collaboration of hoteliers, airport, tourism offices and Government", for which he reiterated that "our commitment is to continue working intensively to continue growing together".

 

Jet2 at Alicante airport

Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández airport is one of the most prominent destinations among the operations carried out by Jet2, the most relevant English tour operator in the United Kingdom. In fact, since operations began in 2003, it has flown to Alicante more than any other destination in Europe.

 

In these 20 years, 11 million passengers have been transported to Alicante-Elche airport, both on arrival and departure, with the tour operator Jet2holidays.

 

The Jet2 company has announced that this winter the offer of seats will be the largest in history, with around 185,000 arrivals, an increase of 14% compared to last winter, a figure that will increase even more next season winter (2024/25), up to 200,000 places.

 

Regarding the summer season, the company points to the fact that the offer will also grow by 9% compared to the recently ended summer, with a total of 465,000 seats in arrival and a peak of 84 weekly flights, at the same time that note that 11 direct routes are offered to the UK, with the new route to Liverpool.

 

It should be noted that Jet2holidays is the largest British tour operator operating on the Costa Blanca and works directly with almost 80 hotels and over 40 villas. After 20 years of collaboration, the tour operator is just as committed to the province of Alicante.