Editing Jet2.com (section)

=== Expansion ===
In November 2008, Jet2.com changed its slogan from "The North's Low Cost Airline" to "Friendly Low Fares".{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} This preceded the announcement of opening a hub at [[East Midlands Airport]], the first of the airline's hubs outside the North of England and Scotland. The base at East Midlands Airport opened in May 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8226042.stm |title=BBC – New airline routes promise jobs |work=BBC News |date=28 August 2009 |access-date=26 January 2013}}</ref>

During November and December 2008, the airline operated four direct flights from Leeds Bradford to [[Newark Liberty International Airport]] using Boeing 757–200s, with a series of flights also planned from both Leeds Bradford and Newcastle during December 2010. Once again, Jet2.com re-introduced seasonal Christmas flights to [[New York City|New York]] during the 2012 winter season; however, this time, flights would operate from Glasgow, East Midlands and Newcastle, in addition to Leeds. The seasonal flights to New York continued annually until 2019 and ran from five of its UK bases.<ref>{{cite web|title= Jet2 announce Newcastle to New York flights to return for winter 2020|date=24 October 2019 |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jet2-new-york-newcastle-airport-17139265|access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref> As an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline cancelled their seasonal trips which they have not returned as of today. Unfortunately, they will most likely never return as the airline has retired all their [[Boeing 757]] aircraft which were formerly used to run those trips, and the non-LR variant of the [[Airbus A321neo]] replacing the Boeing 757 does not have enough range to cover those trips.

In 2010, the airline announced an eighth base at [[Glasgow Airport]] would be opened in April 2011, with an initial nine routes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jet2.com/News.aspx?id=774 |title=Jet2.com gets hypnotic with Derren Brown |access-date=14 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916175556/http://www.jet2.com/News.aspx?id=774 |archive-date=16 September 2010 }}</ref> The base was opened on 31 March, slightly earlier than scheduled. In January 2011, the airline introduced second-hand [[Boeing 737 Next Generation|Boeing 737–800]] aircraft into its fleet. This provided aircraft larger than its existing 737-300s yet smaller than its 757-200 aircraft.

Jet2.com carried more than 600,000 passengers in its first year of operation and more than nine million passengers during 2017, its highest recorded total.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airlines/Datasets/UK-Airline-data/2017/Airline-data-annual-reports-2017/|title=Airline data annual reports 2017 {{!}} UK Civil Aviation Authority|website=www.caa.co.uk|access-date=6 February 2019}}</ref>

On 17 September 2016, the airline received its first brand new Boeing 737–800 of the order for thirty made in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/jet2-takes-delivery-of-new-aircraft-as-part-of-east-mids-airport-expansion-plans-1-8131972 |title=Jet2 takes delivery of new aircraft as part of East Mids Airport expansion plans |website=Derbyshire Times |publisher=Johnston Publishing Ltd. |date=17 September 2016 |access-date=20 September 2016}}</ref> In November 2016, Jet2.com opened its new maintenance hangar at Manchester Airport. In December 2016, Jet2.com announced that it had ordered a further four Boeing 737–800 aircraft, bringing the total on order to 34.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} The airline further expanded by opening its eighth and ninth UK bases in March 2017 at [[Birmingham Airport|Birmingham]] and [[London Stansted Airport|London Stansted]] airports, the latter being its first in the southeast of England.<ref>https://www.jet2.com/news/2017/03/Jet2_com_and_Jet2holidays_take_off_at_TWO_NEW_bases#:~:text=Leading%20leisure%20airline%20and%20package,Airport)%20on%20the%20same%20day.</ref> These have since expanded significantly to become the airline's largest UK bases after Manchester.<ref>https://www.jet2.com/news/2024/09/Jet2_com_and_Jet2holidays_launch_biggest_ever_Summer_programme_for_2026</ref>