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Jet2 and Jet2CityBreaks have announced details of their winter schedule which will see the airline fly to Christmas market destinations.

Travellers can now book festive flights for winter 2025 and 2026 from 12 UK airports for the first time.

Jet2 has added the new route due to customer demand for travel around the Christmas markets. The airline will be operating eight new festive routes that are sure to get you in the mood for this year’s big day.

New trips will also go on sale for the first time from the new UK base at Bournemouth Airport.

Jet2 and Jet2CityBreaks’ Christmas Markets programme is on sale for next winter from Belfast, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool John Lennon, London Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle international airports.

Holidaymakers can visit Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, Copenhagen, Gdansk, Krakow, Prague and Vienna.

More than 250,000 seats are on sale, making it the company’s largest programme to date and will see its capacity increase by 16% compared to winter 2024/2025.

A total of 50 Christmas market circuits will be offered. The eight new circuits are as follows:

From Belfast International to Vienna

From Bournemouth to Prague

From Bournemouth to Vienna

From the East Midlands to Berlin

From Glasgow to Budapest

From Liverpool to Vienna, John Lennon

From Newcastle International to Gdansk

From London Stansted to Krakow

Additional services will operate to Budapest and Prague from Birmingham Airport and to Budapest, Krakow, Prague and Vienna from Manchester Airport.

Jet2 customers can choose a flight-only option with the airline or an ATOL-protected package holiday with Jet2CityBreaks. Better still, you can pay for the package with a deposit starting from £60 per person.

For those who decide to opt for the package option, it includes 22 kg of checked baggage and 10 kg of cabin baggage, perfect for packing and storing all your winter clothes.

Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2 and Jet2holidays, said: “The demand we are seeing for our hugely popular Christmas Markets programme continues to increase, which is why we have responded with our biggest choice yet for winter 25/26.

“With a fantastic selection of Christmas Market holidays on sale across our 12 UK airports, including Bournemouth Airport, this latest programme is our biggest and best yet, offering unrivalled choice to customers and independent travel agents alike.

“Since announcing our arrival at Bournemouth Airport the response has been fantastic, so we know the launch of this new programme will be a huge success with customers in the region who are looking forward to the Jet2 experience.

“As more and more people look to escape to a winter wonderland next winter and enjoy all the fantastic benefits offered by Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks, we know our Winter 25/26 Christmas Markets collection will be more popular than ever.”

The full schedule of Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks Christmas Markets for winter 25/26 is available here.